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Interactions between two neurons in contact chemosensilla of the grasshopper, Schistocerca americana

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The tibial contact chemosensilla of Schistocerca americana contain several neurons, one of which responds to nicotine hydrogen tartrate and certain other compounds. The activity of this cell is sometimes briefly interrupted by the firing of a second cell in the same sensillum which usually only fires a few times in the first 500 ms of a stimulation. The evidence suggests that the nicotine-sensitive cell is directly inhibited by the activity of the second cell. Not all cells in the sensillum produce the same effect.

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White, P.R., Chapman, R.F. & Ascoli-Christensen, A. Interactions between two neurons in contact chemosensilla of the grasshopper, Schistocerca americana . J Comp Physiol A 167, 431–436 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00192578

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