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Effects Of Picrotoxin Application On The Cardiac Ganglion Of The American Lobster, Homarus Americanus, John T. Woolley
Effects Of Picrotoxin Application On The Cardiac Ganglion Of The American Lobster, Homarus Americanus, John T. Woolley
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Picrotoxin (PTX) has been employed extensively as a tool within the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system (STNS) for its efficacy in blocking K+ and Cl+ currents gated by both GABA and glutamate. Through blocking some currents in the STNS, PTX allows for examination of other components without their presence. However, effects of PTX are relatively unknown within the lobster’s cardiac ganglion (CG). As an incredibly small nervous system of only nine neurons, the lobster CG presents an excellent model system for studying neural circuits. Given that the chemical synapses in the CG are mediated by glutamate, the present study …