Octopamine partially restores walking in hypokinetic cockroaches stung by the parasitoid wasp Ampulex compressa

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 4411-4417

  Rosenberg, Lior Ann ^a   Glusman, Jose Gustavo ^a   Libersat, Frederic ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brain; Octopamine; Parasitoid wasp; Periplaneta americana; Subesophageal ganglion; Walking

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENAMIDINE; DIBENZAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; EPINASTINE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; INSECT HORMONE; NORSYNEPHRINE RECEPTOR; OCTOPAMINE; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COCKROACH; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; GANGLION; HEMOLYMPH; INJECTION; INSECT BITE; MALE; METABOLISM; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; WALKING; WASP;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHLORPHENAMIDINE; COCKROACHES; DIBENZAZEPINES; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; HEMOLYMPH; IMIDAZOLES; INJECTIONS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT HORMONES; MALE; OCTOPAMINE; PARASITES; RECEPTORS, BIOGENIC AMINE; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; TIME FACTORS; WALKING; WASPS;

AMPULEX COMPRESSA; BLATTARIA; PERIPLANETA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA;

EID: 38149041865     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.010488     Document Type: Article

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