The shaking-B2 mutation disrupts electrical synapses in a flight circuit in adult Drosophila

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 4700-4710

  Trimarchi, James R ^a   Murphey, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Flight; Gap junctions; Passover; Shaking B; Synapse

Indexed keywords

MECAMYLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EPHAPSE; FLIGHT; GENE MUTATION; LATENT PERIOD; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FLYING; GENETICS; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MECAMYLAMINE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0030610469     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-12-04700.1997     Document Type: Article

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