Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Containing the α7-Like Subunit Mediate Contractions of Muscles Responsible for Space Positioning of the Snail, Helix pomatia L. Tentacle

Tibor Kiss; Nóra Krajcs; Zsolt Pirger; László Hernádi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109538

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Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Containing the α7-Like Subunit Mediate Contractions of Muscles Responsible for Space Positioning of the Snail, Helix pomatia L. Tentacle

Tibor Kiss ,

* E-mail: kiss.tibor@okologia.mta.hu

Affiliation Chemical Ecology and Neurobiology Group, Department of Experimental Zoology, Balaton Limnological Institute, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Tihany, Hungary
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Nóra Krajcs,

Affiliation Chemical Ecology and Neurobiology Group, Department of Experimental Zoology, Balaton Limnological Institute, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Tihany, Hungary
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Zsolt Pirger,

Affiliation Adaptive Neuroetology MTA-CER, National Brain Project Team, Tihany, Hungary
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László Hernádi

Affiliation Chemical Ecology and Neurobiology Group, Department of Experimental Zoology, Balaton Limnological Institute, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Tihany, Hungary
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Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Containing the α7-Like Subunit Mediate Contractions of Muscles Responsible for Space Positioning of the Snail, Helix pomatia L. Tentacle

Tibor Kiss,
Nóra Krajcs,
Zsolt Pirger,
László Hernádi

Published: October 10, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109538

About the Authors

Tibor Kiss

* E-mail: kiss.tibor@okologia.mta.hu

Affiliation Chemical Ecology and Neurobiology Group, Department of Experimental Zoology, Balaton Limnological Institute, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Tihany, Hungary

Nóra Krajcs

Affiliation Chemical Ecology and Neurobiology Group, Department of Experimental Zoology, Balaton Limnological Institute, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Tihany, Hungary

Zsolt Pirger

Affiliation Adaptive Neuroetology MTA-CER, National Brain Project Team, Tihany, Hungary

László Hernádi

Affiliation Chemical Ecology and Neurobiology Group, Department of Experimental Zoology, Balaton Limnological Institute, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Tihany, Hungary

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK. Performed the experiments: NK ZP LH. Analyzed the data: TK ZP NK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK. Wrote the paper: TK LH.

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