Optical monitoring of the neural activity evoked by mechanical stimulation in the earthworm nervous system with a fluorescent dye, FM1-43

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 268, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 159-162

  Shimizu, Ryosaku ^a   Oka, Kotaro ^a   Ogawa, Hiroto ^b   Suzuki, Keisuke ^a   Saito, Junichi ^a   Mizutani, Kenji ^a   Tanishita, Kazuo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activity dependent labeling; Confocal laser scanning microscope; Earthworm; FM1 43; Mechanical stimulation; Optical monitoring; Ventral nerve cord

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; EARTHWORM; EVOKED RESPONSE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE NET; OLIGOCHAETA; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRIDINIUM COMPOUNDS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0033603323     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00400-0     Document Type: Article

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