Molecular Mechanism of Rectification at Identified Electrical Synapses in the Drosophila Giant Fiber System

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 1955-1960

  Phelan, Pauline ^a   Goulding, L Ann ^b   Tam, Jennifer L Y ^b   Allen, Marcus J ^a   Dawber, Rebecca J ^b   Davies, Jane A ^b   Bacon, Jonathan P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

MOLNEURO

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SHAKB PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NERVE CELL; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTOSOME; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CONNEXINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GENES, INSECT; ION CHANNEL GATING; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; OOCYTES; PHENOTYPE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; XENOPUS;

CHORDATA;

EID: 57649238652     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.067     Document Type: Article

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