Regulation of chemosensory and GABAergic motor neuron development by the C. elegans Aristaless/Arx homolog alr-1

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1935-1949

  Melkman, Tali ^a   Sengupta, Piali ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aristaless Arx; C. elegans; Chemosensory neurons; GABAergic; Motoneurons

Indexed keywords

ARISTALESS PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LIM PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARX; PROTEIN LIN 11; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOTONEURON; MUTANT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 18844461896     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01788     Document Type: Article

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