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SUBMITTER: Agarwal M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3184138 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Agarwal Maitreyi M Giannoni Guzmán Manuel M Morales-Matos Carla C Del Valle Díaz Rafael Alejandro RA Abramson Charles I CI Giray Tugrul T
PloS one 20110930 9
Biogenic amines are widely characterized in pathways evaluating reward and punishment, resulting in appropriate aversive or appetitive responses of vertebrates and invertebrates. We utilized the honey bee model and a newly developed spatial avoidance conditioning assay to probe effects of biogenic amines octopamine (OA) and dopamine (DA) on avoidance learning. In this new protocol non-harnessed bees associate a spatial color cue with mild electric shock punishment. After a number of experiences ...[more]