What keeps C. elegans regular: the genetics of defecation

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 571-579

  Branicky, Robyn ^a   Hekimi, Siegfried ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM ION; CALRETICULIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN) II; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAC PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SEMAPHORIN; SYNTAXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; DEFECATION; DSC 1 GENE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLR 1 GENE; FLR 4 GENE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE; INTESTINE MUSCLE; LIPID TRANSPORT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUTANT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; UNC 43 GENE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DEFECATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; PERIODICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33748523825     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2006.08.006     Document Type: Review

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