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Neurobiology of the gastropod nervous system.

 Anatomical, behavioral, biochemical, and physiological analysis of the dopaminergic and serotonergic systems during the different phases of food ingestion in gastropods. 
The role of octopamine neurons in the reorganization of the feeding pattern generator network activity in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis.

Monoamine specific neurotoxins as tools to study the gastropod feeding behavior.
Principles in the organization of the gastropod central and peripheral nervous system (mapping sensory and motor centers in the gastropod brain applying neuroanatomical and electrophysiological approaches).

Hernádi L., Röhlich P. (1988) Freeze fracture study of the receptor membranes in the olfactory organ of Alburnus alburnus (Teleostei). Zoomorph. 108, 41-46.

Hernádi L. (1993) Finestructural characterization of the olfactory epithelium and its response to divalent cations Cd2+ in the fish Alburnus alburnus (Teleostei, Ciprinidae). A scanning and transmission electron microscopic study. Neurobiology 1, 11-33.

Pevzner R.A., Hernádi L., Salánki J. (1986) Effect of mercury on the fish (Alburnus alburnus) chemoreceptor taste buds. A scanning electron microscopic study. Acta Biol.Hung. 37, 159-167.

Borovyagin V., Hernádi L., Salánki J. (1989) Mercury and cadmium induced structural alterations in the taste buds of the fish Alburnus alburnus. Acta Biol. Hung. 40, 237-254.

Hernádi L., Elekes K., S-Rózsa K. (1989) Distribution of serotonin containing neurons in the central nervous system of the snail Helix pomatia. Comparison of immunocytochemical and 5,6-DHT labelling. Cell Tiss.Res. 257, 313-323.

S-Rózsa K., Hernádi L., Kemenes G. (1986) Selective in vivo labeling of serotonergic neurons by 5,6-DHT in the snail Helix pomatia. Comp.Biochem.Physiol. 85C, 419-425.

Hernádi L., S-Rózsa K., Jahan-Parwar B., Carpenter D.O. (1992) A topography and ultrastructural characterization of in vivo 5,7-DHT labelled serotonin containing neurons in the central nervous system of Aplysia californica. Cell.Molec. Neurobiol. 12, 317-326.

Hernádi L., Hiripi L., Vehovszky A., Kemnes G., S-Rózsa K. (1992) Ultrastructural, biochemical and electrophysiological changes induced by 5,6-DHT in the CNS of the snail Helix pomatia. Brain Res. 578, 221-234.

Hernádi L. (1992) Relationship between the distribution of serotonergic cell bodies and the running of vascular elements in the central nervous system of the snail Helix pomatia. Comp.Biochem.Physiol. 103A, 85-92.

Hernádi L., Juhos Sz., Elekes K. (1993) The distribution of tyrosine-hydroxylase-immunoreactive and dopamine-immunoreactive neurons in the central nervous system of the snail Helix pomatia L. Cell Tiss. Res. 274, 503-513.

Hernádi L., Elekes K. (1999) Topographic organization of serotonergic and dopaminergic neurons in the cerebral ganglia and their peripheral projection patterns in the head areas of the snail Helix pomatia. J. Comp. Neurol. 411:274-287. 

Hernádi L. (2000) Topographic organization of efferent neurons with different neurochemical characters in the cerebral ganglia of the snail Helix pomatia. Micr. Res. Tech. 49:521-533.

Hernádi L., Erdelyi L., Hiripi L., Elekes K. (1998) The organization of serotonin, dopamine and FMRFamide containing neuronal elements and their possible role in the regulation of spontaneous contraction of the gastrointestinal tract in the snail Helix pomatia. J. Neurocytology 27:761-775.

Hernádi L. (1994) Distribution and anatomy of GABA-like immunoreactive neurons in the central and peripheral nervous system of the snail Helix pomatia L. Cell Tiss. Res. 277, 189-198.

Hernádi L., Terano Y., Muneoka Y., Kiss T. (1995) Distribution of catch-relaxing petide (CARP)-like immunoreactive neurons in the central and peripheral nervous system of Helix pomatia. Cell Tiss. Res. 280, 335-348.

Hernádi L., Erdélyi L., Párducz A., Szabadi H., Such G., Jancsó G. (1995) In vitro capsaicin-induced cytological changes and alteration in calcium distribution in giant serotonergic neurons of the snail Helix pomatia. A light and electron microscopic study. Cell and Tiss. Res. 282, 445-453.

Hernádi L., Erdélyi L., Hiripi L., Elekes K. (2000) The possible role of the monoaminergic system in the feeding of the snail Helix pomatia. Acta Biol. Hung. 51 :177-187 

1. "The possible role of serotonin and dopamine in the regulation of gastropod feeding" (OTKA grant to L.Hernádi).

2. "Octopamine in a rhythmic network: Cellular mechanism of heterosynaptic modulation" (Wellcome Trust grant to A. Vehovszky)