Neuroligin-deficient mutants of C. elegans have sensory processing deficits and are hypersensitive to oxidative stress and mercury toxicity

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 3, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 366-376

  Hunter, Jerrod W ^a,b   Mullen, Gregory P ^a   McManus, John R ^a   Heatherly, Jessica M ^a,c   Duke, Angie ^a   Rand, James B ^a,b,c  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; NEUROLIGIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; INTERNEURON; MERCURIALISM; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY PROCESSING DEFICIT; SYNAPSE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CUES; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MERCURY; MUSCLE CELLS; MUTATION; NEURONS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SENSATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNAPSES; TEMPERATURE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 77952229511     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.003442     Document Type: Article

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