Not only because I am working with honey bees but because I myself consume an ‘acute’ dose of caffeine every day, I was particularly interested in this new article published in Behavioural brain research this spring having a look on the impact caffeine consumption has on learning and memory in Honey bees. The experiments follow […]
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OctßR1 and OctßR2 act antagonistically on starvation induced locomotor speed and synaptic growth in Drosophila larvae
The authors’ previous paper Koon et al. (2011) presented in JC in March last year, demonstrated structural changes in octopaminergic synaptic terminals in response to starvation. These changes induce an increase in locomotion. Underlying the structural change is the activation of a positive-feedback mechanism, in which octopamine release, presumably by type II octopaminergic synaptic boutons, […]
NPY and olfactory response in Axolotls salamander.
I read this quite old paper, because of a blog post (on reasearch blogging), made me think that this paper showed that the response of olfactory receptor neurons were changing with starvation state of the animal. This is not the case and indeed the blog was not arguing directly that, I misinterpreted the post… Mousley […]
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