Functional dissection of a neuronal network required for cuticle tanning and wing expansion in Drosophila

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 573-584

  Luan, Haojiang ^a   Lemon, William C ^a,d   Peabody, Nathan C ^a   Pohl, Jascha B ^a   Zelensky, Paul K ^a   Wang, Ding ^a   Nitabach, Michael N ^b   Holmes, Todd C ^c   White, Benjamin H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuit; Drosophila; Excitability; Hormone; Network; Neuropeptide

Indexed keywords

BURSICON; CRUSTACEAN CARDIOACTIVE PEPTIDE EXPRESSING NEURON; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL GANGLION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SECRETION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; DISSECTION; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HEMOLYMPH; HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GENE TARGETING; INVERTEBRATE HORMONES; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SHAKER SUPERFAMILY OF POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WING;

EID: 32544460801     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3916-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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