Feeding CPG in Aplysia directly controls two distinct outputs of a compartmentalized interneuron that functions as a CPG element

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3796-3801

  Sasaki, Kosei ^a   Due, Michael R ^a   Jing, Jian ^a   Weiss, Klaudiusz R ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SPIKE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; EATING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; INSTINCT; INTERNEURONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 37549013746     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00965.2007     Document Type: Article

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