Multi-unit recording of antennal mechano-sensitive units in the central complex of the cockroach, Blaberus discoidalis

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 194, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 341-360

  Ritzmann, Roy E ^a   Ridgel, Angela L ^a   Pollack, Alan J ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COCKROACH; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LOCOMOTION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPIL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSE ORGAN; STIMULATION; TIME; TOUCH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COCKROACHES; CUES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LOCOMOTION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPIL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSE ORGANS; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 42049105968     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-007-0310-2     Document Type: Article

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