Caenorhabditis elegans TRPA-1 functions in mechanosensation

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 568-577

  Kindt, Katie S ^a,b   Viswanath, Veena ^c,e   Macpherson, Lindsey ^d   Quast, Kathleen ^b   Hu, Hongzhen ^c   Patapoutian, Ardem ^c,d   Schafer, William R ^a,b  

^a MR CLaboratory of Molecular Biology   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GENOMICS INSTITUTE OF THE NOVARTIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e ALLERGAN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL A 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING; GENE MUTATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MAMMAL CELL; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANOSENSATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NOSE; ORTHOLOGY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; REFLEX; TOUCH; TRANSFECTION; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNELS;

EID: 34247536405     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1886     Document Type: Article

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