Cell type and function of neurons in the ascidian nervous system

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 207-220

  Horie, Takeo ^a   Nakagawa, Masashi ^b   Sasakura, Yasunori ^a   Kusakabe, Takehiro G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Central nervous system; Locomotion; Neuron; Neurotransmitter

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ASCIDIACEA; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEURITE; NEURULATION; NOTOCHORD; REVIEW; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; TADPOLE;

ANIMALS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 63849311194     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2009.01105.x     Document Type: Review

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