Mesothoracic Ventral Unpaired Median (mesVUM) Neurons in the Blowfly Calliphora erythrocephala

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 467, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 435-453

  Schlurmann, Michael ^a   Hausen, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flight muscle; Immunocytochemistry; Insect; Neuroanatomy; Neuromuscular junction; Octopamine

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; NORFENEFRINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOWFLY; CALLIPHORA ERYTHROCEPHALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FLYING; GANGLION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INSECT; INTERNEURON; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEURITE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMERE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; FEMALE; NEURONS; THORAX;

EID: 0242665529     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10930     Document Type: Article

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