Serotonin delays habituation of leech swim response to touch

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 145-149

  Alkatout, Bilal A ^a   Marvin, Nicole M ^a   Crisp, Kevin M ^a  

^a ST OLAF COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenylyl cyclase; Central pattern generation; Interneurons; Protein kinase A

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GANGLION; HABITUATION; INTERNEURON; LEECH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWIMMING; TOUCH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CYCLIC AMP; DRUG INTERACTIONS; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; IMINES; INTERNEURONS; LEECHES; LOCOMOTION; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; SEROTONIN; SWIMMING; THIONUCLEOTIDES; TOUCH;

EID: 34447268399     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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