Central cellular mechanisms underlying temperature-dependent changes in the goldfish startle-escape behavior

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 5617-5626

  Preuss, Thomas ^a   Faber, Donald S ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked response; Dendritic cable properties; Escape behavior; Excitatory inhibitory balance; Kinematics; Mauthner cell; Neural temperature effects; Neuroethology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CLICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DENDRITE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; GOLDFISH; KINEMATICS; LATENT PERIOD; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAUTHNER CELL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STARTLE REFLEX; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0038722134     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-13-05617.2003     Document Type: Article

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