Flight and Walking in Locusts-Cholinergic Co-Activation, Temporal Coupling and Its Modulation by Biogenic Amines

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Rillich, Jan ^a   Stevenson, Paul A ^b   Pflueger, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC AMINE; OCTOPAMINE; PILOCARPINE; TYRAMINE;

ACRIDIDAE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLIGHT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR UNIT; NONHUMAN; SPIKE; WALKING;

AMINES; ANIMALS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GRASSHOPPERS; HINDLIMB; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; MUSCLES; OCTOPAMINE; PERIODICITY; PILOCARPINE; TIME FACTORS; TYRAMINE; WALKING; WING;

EID: 84877334599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062899     Document Type: Article

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