SLO, SLO, quick, quick, slow: Calcium-activated potassium channels as regulators of Caenorhabditis elegans behaviour and targets for anthelmintics

Invertebrate Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 199-208

  Holden Dye, Lindy ^a   O'Connor, Vincent ^a   Hopper, Neil A ^a   Walker, Robert J ^a   Harder, Achim ^b   Bull, Kathryn ^a   Guest, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthelmintics; BK channels; C. elegans; Nematode; SLO 1

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CHARYBDOTOXIN; EMODEPSIDE; IBERIOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DRUG BINDING; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG TARGETING; EXCITABILITY; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 36448951543     PISSN: 13542516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10158-007-0057-z     Document Type: Review

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