Categorical and prolonged potentials are evoked when brief, intermediate-intensity flashes stimulate horseshoe crab lateral eye photoreceptors during octopamine neuromodulation

NeuroSignals

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 399-415

  Lim, Corrinne C M ^a   Wasserman, Gerald S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistability; Efferent; Horseshoe crab; Limulus; Menten function; Neuromodulation; Octopamine; Photoreceptor; Receptor potential; Visual sensitivity

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; OCTOPAMINE; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; LIMULUS; MICROELECTRODE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; POLARIZATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HORSESHOE CRABS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OCTOPAMINE; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA; POLYPHEMUS;

EID: 0035205167     PISSN: 1424862X     EISSN: 14248638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000046907     Document Type: Article

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