Bursicon functions within the Drosophila CNS to modulate wing expansion behavior, hormone secretion, and cell death

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 53, 2008, Pages 14379-14391

  Peabody, Nathan C ^a   Diao, Fengqiu ^a   Luan, Haojiang ^a   Wang, Howard ^a   Dewey, Elizabeth M ^b   Honegger, Hans Willi ^b   White, Benjamin H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Circuit; Drosophila; Ecdysis; Eclosion; Network

Indexed keywords

BURSICON; NEUROHORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL GANGLION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIGENS, CD8; BODY PATTERNING; CALCITONIN; CELL DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INSECT HORMONES; INVERTEBRATE HORMONES; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; WING;

EID: 56649088501     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2842-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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