Electrophysiological Methods for Caenorhabditis elegans Neurobiology

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 107, Issue , 2012, Pages 409-436

  Goodman, Miriam B ^a   Lindsay, Theodore H ^b   Lockery, Shawn R ^b   Richmond, Janet E ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissecting; Gluing; Neuromuscular junction; Patch clamp; Synaptic; Transduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855417221     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394620-1.00014-X     Document Type: Chapter

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