Slow Ca2+ dynamics in pharyngeal muscles in Caenorhabditis elegans during fast pumping

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 521-526

  Shimozono, Satoshi ^a   Fukano, Takashi ^a   Kimura, Koutarou D ^b   Mori, Ikue ^b   Kirino, Yutaka ^c   Miyawaki, Atsushi ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Calcium imaging; Feeding; Peristalsis; Pharyngeal muscles

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); CALCIUM CHANNEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CALCIUM; RYANODINE RECEPTOR; UNC 68 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; UNC-68 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; ILLUMINATION; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PERISTALSIS; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPIKE; SWALLOWING; THYROID GLAND; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HIRUNDINIDAE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLES; PERISTALSIS; PHARYNX; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL;

EID: 2942606166     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400142     Document Type: Article

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