A Novel Neural Substrate for the Transformation of Olfactory Inputs into Motor Output
Author(s) -
Dominique Derjean,
Aimen Moussaddy,
Elias Atallah,
Melissa St-Pierre,
François Auclair,
Steven L. Chang,
Xiang Ren,
Barbara S. Zielinski,
Réjean Dubuc
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000567
Subject(s) - biology , neuroscience , olfactory bulb , hindbrain , olfactory system , lamprey , calcium imaging , neuroethology , neural substrate , biological neural network , zebrafish , electrophysiology , excitatory postsynaptic potential , anatomy , central nervous system , sensory system , inhibitory postsynaptic potential , biochemistry , chemistry , cognition , organic chemistry , fishery , gene , calcium
Anatomical and physiological experiments in the lamprey reveal the neural circuit involved in transforming olfactory inputs into motor outputs, which was previously unknown in a vertebrate.
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