Extracellular long-term recordings of the isolated accessory medulla, the circadian pacemaker center of the cockroach Leucophaea maderae, reveal ultradian and hint circadian rhythms

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-42

  Schneider, Nils Lasse ^a   Stengl, Monika ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action potential rhythms; Circadian clock; Neuropeptides; Oscillations; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COCKROACH; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GANGLION; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OPTIC LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COCKROACHES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; MALE; NERVE NET; OPTIC LOBE;

EID: 33846116637     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-006-0169-7     Document Type: Article

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