Imaging fictive locomotor patterns in larval Drosophila

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2564-2577

  Pulver, Stefan R ^a,c   Bayley, Timothy G ^b   Taylor, Adam L ^c   Berni, Jimena ^b   Bate, Michael ^b   Hedwig, Berthold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium imaging; Central pattern generator; Intersegmental coordination; Locomotion; Neuroethology

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE ROOT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; SUBESOPHAGEAL GANGLION; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GANGLION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR NEURONS; OPTICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84946881938     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00731.2015     Document Type: Article

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