A role for Synapsin in associative learning: The Drosophila larva as a study case

Learning and Memory

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 224-231

  Michels, Birgit ^a   Diegelmann, Sören ^a   Tanimoto, Hiromu ^a   Schwenkert, Isabell ^a   Buchner, Erich ^a   Gerber, Bertram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; SYNAPSIN;

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACKCROSSING; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; LARVA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE; NERVE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SMELLING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DROSOPHILA; LARVA; MUTATION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNAPSINS;

EID: 21844441381     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.92805     Document Type: Article

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