Understanding the functional consequences of synaptic specialization: Insight from the Drosophila antennal lobe

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 254-260

  Wilson, Rachel I ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANTENNA (ORGAN); DROSOPHILA; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; INSECT GENETICS; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE FIBER; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY NERVE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PATCH CLAMP; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SMELLING; SOMATIC CELL; STEREOTYPY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA; SYNAPSES;

EID: 79955650140     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.03.002     Document Type: Review

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