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December 2006
It is my pleasure to present the seventh volume of Pioneering Neuroscience. The papers collected in this volume were all contributed by students in Biology 150 -- Introduction to Biological Inquiry: the Language of Neurons. For most of these students, Bio 150 was taken during their first semester in college. For all of the students, this was their first college-level biology course! Despite, perhaps because of, their relative "newness" to biology, the research described in this journal is less typical (i.e. more imaginative) than one would normally find in a neuroscience journal. I hope you enjoy it.
I wish to thank the students of Biology 150 for their hard work and collegiality. None of this would have been possible without the major contributions of Sue Kolbe, the lab instructor for Biology 150, and Zachary Newman, the student assistant. Thanks also to Stephanie Peterson for her excellent work in typesetting the journal.
Clark Lindgren, Editor. Grinnell, Iowa
Pioneering Neuroscience Volume 7, Cover [V7_cover.pdf]
Table of Contents [V7_TOC.pdf]
Introduction, by Professor Clark Lindgren [Intro.pdf]
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
The effects of a Group III metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonist at the crayfish neuromuscular junction.
M. Clarke, A. Conlon & G. Maldonado Bell
Serotonin enhances EPSP amplitudes via the release of calcium stores at IP3 receptor sites and 2-APB inhibits these receptors and decreases EPSP amplitudes at the crayfish neuromuscular junction.
L. Etzkorn, A. Griffith & A. Guetzko
Citrate and NTA not suitable as extracellular calcium buffers at the crayfish neuromuscular junction.
H. Hagen-Atwell, K. Jones & N. Pavlovic
Chronic exposure of crayfish to ethanol reduces EPSP depression due to sudden change in ethanol concentration.
N. Kimball, B. Prosseda & M. Schneider
The role of calcium-activated potassium channels in excitatory postsynaptic potential duration.
C. Krause, E. Petrie & S. Sharma
Effect of extracellular calcium concentration on facilitation in the crayfish neuromuscular junction.
C. Bernardo, S. Claycomb & L. Dennis
Nitrendipine and cadmium decrease synaptic transmission in the crayfish neuromuscular junction while ω-conotoxin does not.
G. Clark, H. Liebl & S. Skraba
Long term depression decreased in crayfish chronically exposed to Fluoxetine.
J. Goetz, C. Jones & M. Scott
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