Teaching basic neurophysiology using intact earthworms

Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kladt, Nikolay ^a,b   Hanslik, Ulrike ^a   Heinzel, Hans Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Conduction velocity; Earthworms; Extracellular recordings; Facilitation of conduction velocity; Flight reflexes; Giant fibers; Giant motorneuron; Refractory period; Spatial size of action potentials; Synaptic depression and facilitation; Threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649288580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15442896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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