Food and metabolic signalling defects in a Caenorhabditis elegans serotonin-synthesis mutant

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6769, 2000, Pages 560-564

  Szø, Ji Ying ^a,b   Victor, Martin ^c   Loer, Curtis ^d   Shi, Yang ^c   Ruvkun, Gary ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DELETION MUTANT; EGG LAYING; FOOD INTAKE; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE DELETION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LONGEVITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRODUCTION; SEROTONIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOMEDINS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0342680006     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35000609     Document Type: Article

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