Responses of efferent octopaminergic thoracic unpaired median neurons in the locust to visual and mechanosensory signals

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 240-254

  Field, Laurence H ^b   Duch, Carsten ^c   Pflüger, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogenic amine; DUM neuron; Insect; Motoneuron; Neuromodulation; Sensory

Indexed keywords

NORSYNEPHRINE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

LOCUST; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; GANGLION; GRASSHOPPER; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METABOLISM; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GRASSHOPPERS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NEURONS, EFFERENT; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, BIOGENIC AMINE; TIME FACTORS;

HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 38149108194     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2007.09.006     Document Type: Article

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