Serotonin mediates a learned increase in attraction to high concentrations of benzaldehyde in aged C. elegans

Learning and Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 844-855

  Tsui, David ^a   Van Der Kooy, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZALDEHYDE; SEROTONIN;

AGING; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BENZALDEHYDES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GI-GO; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUTATION; ODORS; SEROTONIN; SESQUITERPENES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 55749087022     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1188208     Document Type: Article

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