Modulating the modulators: Parasites, neuromodulators and host behavioral change

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 370-377

  Adamo, Shelley A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Host behavior; Invertebrate; Neuroimmunology; Neuromodulators; Parasites

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC AMINE; NEUROPEPTIDE; OCTOPAMINE; SCHISTOSOMIN; SEROTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACANTHOCEPHALUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; EGG LAYING; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; GAMMARUS; GANGLION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INHIBITION KINETICS; INVERTEBRATE; LYMNAEA; MOTH; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUTATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETION; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; TREMATODE; WASP;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INVERTEBRATE HORMONES; NERVE NET; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; COTESIA CONGREGATA; CRUSTACEA; GAMMARUS LACUSTRIS; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; MANDUCA SEXTA; POLYMORPHUS; POLYMORPHUS PARADOXUS; TREMATODA; TRICHOBILHARZIA OCELLATA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0036979707     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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