Directional avoidance turns encoded by single interneurons and sustained by multifunctional serotonergic cells

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3039-3051

  Jing, Jian ^a,b   Gillette, Rhanor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidance behavior; Behavioral decision; Central pattern generator; Directional behavior; Escape swimming; Mollusc; Orienting and avoidance turns; Pleurobranchaea; Population coding; Premotor neurons

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROPOD; INTERNEURON; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN GENERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SWIMMING;

EID: 0037388707     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-07-03039.2003     Document Type: Article

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