Spatial asymmetry in the mechanosensory phenotypes of the C. elegans DEG/ENaC gene mec-10

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3334-3344

  Chatzigeorgiou, Marios ^a   Grundy, Laura ^a   Kindt, Katie S ^b   Lee, Wei Hsiang ^c   Driscoll, Monica ^c   Schafer, William R ^a,b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DENDRITE; GENE; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; MEC 10 GENE; MEC 4 GENE; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TOUCH;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM; DENDRITES; GENE DELETION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TOUCH;

EID: 78650860723     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00330.2010     Document Type: Article

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