Molecular modeling of mechanotransduction in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 59, Issue , 1997, Pages 659-689

  Tavernarakis, Nektarios ^a   Driscoll, Monica ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

degenerins; mec genes; motor neurons; stretch sensitive ion channels; touch transduction

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; COLLAGEN; DEGENERIN; SODIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HUMANS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOUCH;

EID: 0030900548     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.59.1.659     Document Type: Review

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