unc-8, a DEG/ENaC family member, encodes a subunit of a candidate mechanically gated channel that modulates C. elegans locomotion

Neuron

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 107-119

  Tavernarakis, Nektarios ^a   Shreffler, Wayne ^b   Wang, Shiliang ^a   Driscoll, Monica ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHANNEL GATING; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SENSORY NERVE;

EID: 0031032833     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(01)80050-7     Document Type: Article

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