BMB Reports
- Volume 31 Issue 3
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- Pages.264-268
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- 1998
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- 1976-670X(eISSN)
Action of Dopamine as Inhibitory Neuromodulator in Jellyfish Synapse
- Chung, Jun-mo (Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Ewha Womans University) ;
- Spencert, Andrew N. (Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alberta)
- Received : 1998.02.03
- Published : 1998.05.31
Abstract
Dopamine (DA) acts on swimming motor neurons (SMNs) of Polyorchis penicillatus as an inhibitory neurotransmitter by hyperpolarizing their membrane potentials, which results from the activation of voltagesensitive potassium channels mediated through a