Modulation of an integrated central pattern generator-effector system: Dopaminergic regulation of cardiac activity in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3455-3470

  Fort, Timothy J ^a   Brezina, Vladimir ^b   Miller, Mark W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLUE CRAB; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR EFFECTOR SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; GANGLION; HEART CONTRACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; L CELL; MALE; MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; HEART; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 8644254216     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00550.2004     Document Type: Article

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