Functional changes in the snail statocyst system elicited by microgravity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Balaban, Pavel M ^a   Malyshev, Aleksey Y ^a   Ierusalimsky, Victor N ^a   Aseyev, Nikolay ^a   Korshunova, Tania A ^a   Bravarenko, Natasha I ^a   Lemak, M S ^a   Roshchin, Matvey ^a   Zakharov, Igor S ^b   Popova, Yekaterina ^c   Boyle, Richard ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b KOL TSOV INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; PHENYLALANYLMETHIONYLARGINYLPHENYLALANINAMIDE;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FMRFAMIDE GENE; GASTROPOD; GENE; GRAVITY SENSING; HELIX (SNAIL); HPEP GENE; LATENT PERIOD; MICROGRAVITY; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORIENTATION; OTOLITH; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SNAIL; SPACE FLIGHT; TILTING; UPREGULATION; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL ANATOMY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; HELIX ASPERSA; HELIX LUCORUM; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NEURONS; SNAILS; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 79953228873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017710     Document Type: Article

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