Genetic analysis of age-dependent defects of the Caenorhabditis elegans touch receptor neurons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 9274-9279

  Pan, Chun Liang ^a,b   Peng, Chiu Ying ^b   Chen, Chun Hao ^b   McIntire, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Extracellular matrix; Insulin signaling; Ion channels; Mechanosensory neurons; Neurodegeneration

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL AGING; CELL STRUCTURE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CYTOSKELETON; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FASCICULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TOUCH;

AGING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENES, HELMINTH; INSULIN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOUCH;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 79959339376     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011711108     Document Type: Article

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