A glycine receptor is involved in the organization of swimming movements in an invertebrate chordate

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nishino, Atsuo ^a,b   Okamura, Yasushi ^b,c   Piscopo, Stefania ^d   Brown, Euan R ^d  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; INTERNEURON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CORD; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SWIMMING; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; GANGLION; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PERIODICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIONA INTESTINALIS; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; INTERNEURONS; LARVA; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLES; NEURAL INHIBITION; PERIODICITY; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; SWIMMING; VIDEO RECORDING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 76949093919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-11-6     Document Type: Article

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