Remodeling of a larval skeletal muscle motoneuron to drive the posterior cardiac pacemaker in the adult moth, Manduca sexta

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 478, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 126-142

  Dulcis, Davide ^a   Levine, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chordotonal organ; Insect dorsal vessel; Myogenic and neurogenic heartbeat; Neuronal respecification; Sensory evoked reversal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO; GANGLION; HEART BEAT; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART INNERVATION; LARVA; MANDUCA SEXTA; METAMORPHOSIS; MOTH; MOTONEURON; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; LARVA; MANDUCA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SINOATRIAL NODE;

EID: 4444286355     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20294     Document Type: Article

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