Levamisole resistance resolved at the single-channel level in Caenorhabditis elegans

FASEB Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3247-3254

  Qian, Hai ^a   Robertson, Alan P ^a   Powell Coffman, Jo Anne ^a   Martin, Richard J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

LEV 1; LEV 10; LEV 8; nAChR; Resistance

Indexed keywords

LEVAMISOLE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; KNOCKOUT GENE; MUSCLE CELL; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ION CHANNELS; LEVAMISOLE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 51349087230     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.08-110502     Document Type: Article

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