Gαq-coupled muscarinic acetylcholine receptors enhance nicotinic acetylcholine receptor signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans mating behavior

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1411-1421

  Liu, Yishi ^a   LeBoeuf, Brigitte ^a   Garcia, L René ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic signaling; gar 3; mAChR; Muscle contraction; nAChR; Spontaneous synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MATING; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; VULVA; WILD TYPE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENITALIA; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GQ-G11; HERMAPHRODITISM; ISOENZYMES; LEVAMISOLE; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEURONS; OXOTREMORINE; PERIODICITY; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTAXIN 1; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 33846941538     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4320-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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