Parasitoid wasp sting: A cocktail of GABA, taurine, and β-alanine opens chloride channels for central synaptic block and transient paralysis of a cockroach host

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 811-820

  Moore, Eugene L ^a,c   Haspel, Gal ^b,d   Libersat, Frederic ^b   Adams, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta alanine; Cockroach; GABA; Parasitoid; Taurine; Venom; Wasp

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ALANINE; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CHLORIDE ION; DABSYL CHLORIDE; PICROTOXIN; TAURINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WASP VENOM;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERCAL GIANT SYNAPSE; CHLORIDE CURRENT; COCKROACH; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT STING; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SIZE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHORACIC GANGLION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; WASP;

ANIMALS; BETA-ALANINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INTERNEURONS; MECHANORECEPTORS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PARALYSIS; PARASITES; PERIPLANETA; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TAURINE; WASP VENOMS; WASPS;

EID: 33745777988     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.20254     Document Type: Article

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