Transducing Touch in Caenorhabditis elegans

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2003, Pages 429-452

  Goodman, Miriam B ^a   Schwarz, Erich M ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amiloride; DEG ENaC channels; Ion channels; Mechanosensation; TRP channels

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VOLTAGE GATED CHANNEL FORMING PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; HERMAPHRODITISM; HUMAN; MECHANORECEPTOR; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSATION; SENSE ORGAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; TOUCH; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TOUCH;

EID: 0037607542     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.65.092101.142659     Document Type: Review

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