Pre- and postsynaptic excitation and inhibition at octopus optic lobe photoreceptor terminals; implications for the function of the 'presynaptic bags'

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2196-2203

  Piscopo, Stefania ^a   Moccia, Francesco ^b   Di Cristo, Carlo ^c   Caputi, Luigi ^a   Di Cosmo, Anna ^b   Brown, Euan R ^a  

^a STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Acetylcholine receptors; AMPA kainate receptors; Glutamate; Photoreceptors; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OCTOPUS; OPTIC LOBE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTOSOME;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; OCTOPODIFORMES; OPTIC LOBE, NONMAMMALIAN; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 35448938410     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05833.x     Document Type: Article

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