Alleviation of the temperature-sensitive paralytic phenotype of shibirets mutants in Drosophila by sub-anesthetic concentrations of carbon dioxide

Journal of Neurogenetics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 221-238

  Krishnan, K S ^a   Chakravarty, Sumana ^a   Rao, Sujata ^a   Raghuram, V ^b   Ramaswami, Mani ^b  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Endocytosis; Seizures; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ARGON; CARBON DIOXIDE; HALOTHANE; NITROGEN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; MUTATION; PARALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; TEMPERATURE;

ALLELES; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; ARGON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DROSOPHILA; HALOTHANE; MUTATION; NITROGEN; PARALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030226409     PISSN: 01677063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01677069609083464     Document Type: Article

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