Electrical hyperexcitation of lateral ventral pacemaker neurons desynchronizes downstream circadian oscillators in the fly circadian circuit and induces multiple behavioral periods

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 479-489

  Nitabach, Michael N ^a,b   Wu, Ying ^b   Sheeba, Vasu ^a   Lemon, William C ^c   Strumbos, John ^b   Zelensky, Paul K ^c   White, Benjamin H ^c   Holmes, Todd C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Behavior; Circadian rhythms; Desynchronization; Drosophila; Sodium channel

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CHANNEL GATING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OOCYTES; POINT MUTATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SODIUM CHANNELS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 32544439026     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3915-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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