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Invertebrate neurobiology; identification and neurophysiological/pharmacological characterization of neurons in the central nervous system of snails, Helix pomatia and Lymnaea stagnalis

Neuromodulation in the pattern generating neuronal systems. Role of the octopamine in the feeding network of the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis.

 Á. Vehovszky, C. J. H. Elliott, E. E. Voronezhskaya, L. Hiripi, and K. Elekes.(1998) Octopamine: a new feeding modulator in Lymnaea Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 353, 1631-1643.

Vehovszky, A., Hiripi L, and. Elliott C. J. H (2000): Octopamine is the synaptic transmitter between identified neurons in the buccal feeding network of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis  Brain Research., 867:188-199.

Christopher J.H. Elliott and Ágnes Vehovszky (2000) Polycyclic neuromodulation of the feeding rhythm of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis by the intrinsic octopaminergic interneuron, OC. Brain Res. 887, 63-69. 

Vehovszky, A., Elliott, C.J.H.(2001) Activation and reconfiguration of fictive feeding by the octopamine-containing modulatory OC interneurons in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis J. Neurophysiol 86,: 792-808.

Vehovszky, A and. Elliott, C.J.H, (2002) Heterosynaptic modulation by the octopaminergic OC interneurons increases the synaptic outputs of protraction phase interneurons (SO, N1L) in the feeding system of Lymnaea stagnalis Neuroscience 115/2 pp 483-494.

Robert Walker - University of Southampton, School of Biological Sciences, UK

Christopher Elliott - University of York, Department of Biology, York, UK

2001-2004 
"Octopamine in a rhythmic network: cellular mechanisms of heterosynaptic modulation". Initiative Collaboration Research Grant supported by the Wellcome Trust. (collaboration with Dr. Christopher Elliott, University of York, Department Biology, UK).

2002-2005
"The possible role of serotonin and dopamine in the regulation of gastropod feeding". supported by the Hungarian Academy Sciences, OTKA grant (project manager Dr. László Hernádi)

2003-2006
"Activity- and information dependent synaptic plasticity in neural networks in vitro". supported by the Hungarian Academy Sciences, OTKA grant (project manager Dr. Attila Szűcs)

1985: four months: Institute of the Higher Nervous Activity of the Russian Acedemy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, sponsored according to the exchange visit scheme between the Russian and Hungarian Academies.(Dr. Pavel Balaban).

1987 (three months), 1988 (five months), 1996 (three months): University of Southampton, School of Biological Sciences sponsored by the Royal Society and the Soros foundation (Prof. Robert Walker).

1992-1994: University of York, Department of Biology, York, UK sponsored by the Wellcome Trust (Dr. Christopher Elliott).

1998 - 2000: University of York, Department of Biology, York, UK sponsored by the BBSRC (Dr. Christopher Elliott).