Ultrastructure of electrical synapses between nociceptive and anterior pagoda neurons in the CNS of the leech (Whitmania pigra)

Invertebrate Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 193-198

  Shen, Duan wen ^a,c   Lu, Qi wu ^b   Wang, Li ^a   Zhang, Ren ji ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical synapses; Gap junction; Leech; Neuropil; Positional discrimination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GAP JUNCTION; LABELING INDEX; LEECH; NEUROPIL; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; FREEZE FRACTURING; GAP JUNCTIONS; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; LEECHES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NEUROPIL; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0036821744     PISSN: 13542516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10158-002-0020-y     Document Type: Article

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