Synaptic transmission deficits in Caenorhabditis elegans synaptobrevin mutants

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 70-80

  Nonet, Michael L ^a   Saifee, Owais ^a   Zhao, Hongjuan ^a   Rand, James B ^b   Wei, Liping ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Exocytosis; Mutants; Synaptic vesicle protein; Synaptobrevin; v SNARE; VAMP

Indexed keywords

ALDICARB; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; MUTANT PROTEIN; SYNAPTOBREVIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNAPTOTAGMIN; SYNTAXIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MUTANT; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031975266     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-01-00070.1998     Document Type: Article

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