Chemical Neuroanatomy of the Fly's Movement Detection Pathway

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 468, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-23

  Sinakevitch, Irina ^a   Strausfeld, Nicholas J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspartate; ChAT; GABA; Glutamate; Indexing terms: vision; Insect; Motion computation; Optic lobes

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SILVER; TAURINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EFFERENT NERVE; FLY; GOLGI COMPLEX; HONEYBEE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; PERIPLANETA; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; BEES; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DENDRITES; DIPTERA; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PERIPLANETA; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; TAURINE;

EID: 0347411184     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10929     Document Type: Article

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