Learning-related plasticity in PE1 and other mushroom body-extrinsic neurons in the honeybee brain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 43, 2007, Pages 11736-11747

  Okada, Ryuichi ^a,b   Rybak, Jürgen ^a   Manz, Gisela ^a   Menzel, Randolf ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TOKUSHIMA BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Associative plasticity; Extracellular recording; Mushroom body; Olfactory learning; PE1 neuron

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; HONEYBEE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MUSHROOM BODY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PEDUNCULAR ANSA; PEDUNCULUS EXTRINSIC NEURON 1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEES; BRAIN; LEARNING; MUSHROOM BODIES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SMELL;

EID: 35548964304     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2216-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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