Caenorhabditis elegans rab-3 mutant synapses exhibit impaired function and are partially depleted of vesicles

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 8061-8073

  Nonet, Michael L ^a,b   Staunton, Jane E ^b   Kilgard, Michael P ^a   Fergestad, Tim ^d   Hartwieg, Erika ^c   Horvitz, H Robert ^c   Jorgensen, Erik M ^d   Meyer, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Exocytosis; Mutants; Rab3; Small GTP binding proteins; Synaptic vesicle proteins

Indexed keywords

ALDICARB; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENDOSOME; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SURVIVAL RATE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030730833     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-21-08061.1997     Document Type: Article

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