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Contrasting Role of Octopamine in Appetitive and Aversive Learning in the Crab Chasmagnathus

BACKGROUND: Biogenic amines are implicated in reinforcing associative learning. Octopamine (OA) is considered the invertebrate counterpart of noradrenaline and several studies in insects converge on the idea that OA mediates the reward in appetitive conditioning. However, it is possible to assume th...

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Autores principales: Kaczer, Laura, Maldonado, Héctor
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19603069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006223