Polarization-sensitive and light-sensitive neurons in two parallel pathways passing through the anterior optic tubercle in the locust brain

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3903-3915

  Pfeiffer, Keram ^a   Kinoshita, Michiyo ^b   Homberg, Uwe ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR OPTIC TUBERCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INSECT; LOCUST; MIGRATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCHISTOCERCA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GRASSHOPPERS; ISOQUINOLINES; LIGHT; NEURONS; OPTIC LOBE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 28044466627     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00276.2005     Document Type: Article

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