Muscle fibers in the swim appendages of the mollusk Aplysia brasiliana are innervated by cholinergic motoneurons. Serotonin (5-HT) causes an increase in amplitude of junctional potentials and muscle ...

A mathematical model based on the dynamics of molecular signaling pathways predicts an optimal training regimen that enhances learning and memory. The authors used a mathematical model that describes ...

Thomas J. Ha, Andrea B. Kohn, Yelena V. Bobkova and Leonid L. Moroz The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor belongs to the group of ionotropic glutamate receptors and has been implicated in synaptic ...

Using sea slugs as models, scientists someday may be able to design learning protocols that improve long-term memory formation in humans, a new study suggests. The researchers used information about ...

Learn more about the sea slug Aplysia, the focus of our research in the Chiel Lab at Case Western Reserve University.

Figure 1: Bursts of two to four spikes in presynaptic sensory neurons protect against development of HSD and partially reverse previously developed HSD. Figure 2: Effect of BDP on sensory neuron ...

Neuroscientists love Aplysia. They are a type of sea slug that grows to be about a foot long. With only 20,000 nerve cells – compared with about 100 billion found in the human brain – Aplysia are the ...

At any given time within just a single brain cell of sea slug known as Aplysia, more than 10,000 genes are active, according to scientists writing in Cell. Researchers also analyzed 146 human genes ...

Newly metamorphosed juvenile Aplysia californica (sea slug) raised from plankton larvae at the NIH-funded National Resource for Aplysia located on the Virginia Key, Fla., campus of the University of ...

Mature adult Aplysia californica (sea slug) raised at the National Resource for Aplysia at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. The NIH-funded facilitiy ...