Serotonin activates overall feeding by activating two separate neural pathways in Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1920-1931

  Song, Bo mi ^a   Avery, Leon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 7 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ISTHMUS PERISTALSIS; MOTONEURON; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PERISTALSIS; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERISTALSIS; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN;

EID: 84857018711     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2064-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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