Genetic models of mechanotransduction: The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Physiological Reviews

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1097-1153

  Syntichaki, Popi ^a   Tavernarakis, Nektarios ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHANNEL GATING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENETIC MODEL; HEARING; HOMEOSTASIS; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; NEURONS;

EID: 4644339559     PISSN: 00319333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00043.2003     Document Type: Review

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