Osmotic avoidance in caenorhabditis elegans: Synaptic function of two genes, orthologues of human NRXN1 and NLGN1, as candidates for autism

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 34, 2010, Pages

  Calahorro, Fernando ^a,b   Alejandre, Encarna ^a,b   Ruiz Rubio, Manuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autism; Caenorhabditis elegans; Neurexin; Neuroligin; Neuroscience; Osmotic sensitivity; Synapse

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960966752     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/1616     Document Type: Article

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