Durations and frequencies of free locomotion in wild type and GABAergic mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-84

  Shingai, Ryuzo ^a  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer analysis; Duration; GABA; Interval; Mutant; Nematode; Neural network model

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AGAROSE; CARRIER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACTERIUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTION; MODEL; MUTANT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0034282136     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(00)00148-6     Document Type: Article

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