Nitric oxide signals that Aplysia have attempted to eat, a necessary component of memory formation after learning that food is inedible

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1247-1257

  Katzoff, Ayelet ^a   Ben Gedalya, Tziona ^a   Hurwitz, Itay ^a   Miller, Nimrod ^a   Susswein, Yehoshua Z ^a   Susswein, Abraham J ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANYLATE CYCLASE; METHYLENE BLUE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APLYSIA; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MEMORY; METHYLENE BLUE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33748567111     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00056.2006     Document Type: Article

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