Polarization-sensitive descending neurons in the locust: Connecting the brain to thoracic ganglia

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2238-2247

  Träger, Ulrike ^a   Homberg, Uwe ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN NERVE CELL; GANGLION; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LIGHT; LOCUST; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE DESCENDING NEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THORACIC GANGLIA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FMRFAMIDE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; GOALS; GRASSHOPPERS; INSECT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEROTONIN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SYMPORTERS; TACHYKININS;

EID: 79951534317     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3624-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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