Using crickets to introduce neurophysiology to early undergraduate students

Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Dagda, Ruben K ^a,b   Thalhauser, Rachael M ^b   Dagda, Raul ^a   Marzullo, Timothy C ^c   Gage, Gregory J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Information Science   (United States)

^c Backyard Brains Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential; Cerci ganglion; Cricket; Electrophysiology; Extracellular recording; Motor neurons; Neuron; Neuropharmacology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887207586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15442896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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