Serotonin enhances central olfactory neuron responses to female sex pheromone in the male sphinx moth Manduca sexta

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 8172-8181

  Kloppenburg, Peter ^a,b   Ferns, Donald ^c   Mercer, Alison R ^b,c  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Glomeruli; K+ currents; Neuromodulation; Olfaction; Pheromone; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY CORTEX; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SMELLING;

EID: 0033215981     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-19-08172.1999     Document Type: Article

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