Excitation and inhibition in recurrent networks mediate collision avoidance in Xenopus tadpoles

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2948-2962

  Khakhalin, Arseny S ^a   Koren, David ^a   Gu, Jenny ^a   Xu, Heng ^a   Aizenman, Carlos D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Looming stimuli; Optic tectum; Sensorimotor transformation; Vision

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; PICROTOXIN; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TADPOLE; TECTUM; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; VISION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; LARVA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; OPTIC NERVE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84923012829     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12664     Document Type: Article

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