Endogenous motor neuron properties contribute to a program-specific phase of activity in the multifunctional feeding central pattern generator of Aplysia

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-42

  Serrano, Geidy E ^a,b   Martínez Rubio, Clarissa ^a   Miller, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; APLYSIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARBACHOL; CESIUM; CHEEK; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INTERNEURONS; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34447570636     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01062.2006     Document Type: Article

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