Circadian- and light-dependent regulation of resting membrane potential and spontaneous action potential firing of Drosophila circadian pacemaker neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 976-988

  Sheeba, Vasu ^a   Gu, Huaiyu ^a   Sharma, Vijay K ^a,b   O'Dowd, Diane K ^a   Holmes, Todd C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; LIGHT; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EYE PROTEINS; FLAVOPROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LIGHT; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUTATION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 38149040998     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00930.2007     Document Type: Article

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