Unc-13 is required for synaptic vesicle fusion in C. elegans

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 959-964

  Richmond, Janet E ^a   Davis, Warren S ^a   Jorgensen, Erik M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXOCYTOSIS; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 0033349884     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/14755     Document Type: Article

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