Tectal responses to potassium loads and subsequent visual stimuli in the toad, Bufo bufo

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 665-674

  Laming, Gillian E ^a   Laming, Peter R ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Potassium; Tectum; Visual stimuli

Indexed keywords

ISOTONIC SOLUTION; POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BATH; BREEDING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUNGER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; POTASSIUM INTAKE; PRETECTUM; PREY; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TOAD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORM;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO; BUFO BUFO;

EID: 4644310009     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Ewert J.P. The release of visual behaviour in toads: stages of parallel/hierarchical information processing. Ewert J.P., Arbib M.A. Visuomotor Coordination: Amphibians, Comparisons, Models and Robots. 1989;39-120 Plenum, New York.
2. Hertz L. Possible role of neuroglia: a potassium-mediated neuronal-neuroglial-neuronal impulse transmission system. Nature. 206:1965;1091-1094.
3. Laming P.R. Do glia contribute to behaviour? A neuromodulatory review. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A. 94:1989;555-568.
4. Laming P.R., Cairns C. Effects of food, glucose and water ingestion on feeding activity in the toad, Bufo bufo. Behav. Neurosci. 112:1998;1266-1272.
5. Laming P.R., Ewert J.P. Visual unit, EEG and sustained potential shift responses to biologically significant stimuli in the brain of toads, (Bufo bufo). J. Comp. Physiol. A. 154:1984;89-101.
6. Laming P.R., Ocherashvili I.V., Nicol A.U., Roughan J.V., Laming B.A. Sustained potential shifts in the toad tectum reflect prey catching and avoidance behaviour. Behav. Neurosci. 109:1995;150-160.
7. Laming P.R., Kimelberg K., Robinson S., Salm A., Hawrylak N., Muller C., et al. Neuronal-glial interactions and behaviour. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 24:2000;295-340.
8. Roitbak A.I., Fanardjian V.V., Melkonyan D.S., Melkonyan A.A. Contribution of glia and neurons to the surface-negative potentials of the cerebral cortex during its electrical stimulation. Neuroscience. 20:1987;1057-1067.
9. +]: of the frog optic tectum. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 170:1992;327-333.
10. SPSSx Inc. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. 1986;McGraw Hill, New York.