Glutamate-gated chloride channels and the mode of action of the avermectin/milbemycin anthelmintics

Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Wolstenholme, A J ^a   Rogers, A T ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Chemotherapy; Filaria; Haemonchus contortus; Ionotropic receptor; Ivermectin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; AVERMECTIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCOPROTEIN P; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; MILBEMYCIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CHLORIDE CURRENT; COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SELECTIVITY; FILARIA; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; NEMATODE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; IVERMECTIN; LOCOMOTION; MACROLIDES; NEMATODA; P-GLYCOPROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; FILARIA; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33645581386     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182005008218     Document Type: Review

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