eat-2 and eat-18 are Required for Nicotinic Neurotransmission in the Caenorhabditis elegans Pharynx

Genetics

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 161-169

  McKay, James P ^a   Raizen, David M ^b   Gottschalk, Alexander ^c   Schafer, William R ^c   Avery, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EAT18 GENE; EAT2 GENE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNAPSE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BUNGAROTOXINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; GENES, HELMINTH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES; PHARYNX; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 1642281181     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.166.1.161     Document Type: Article

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