Dissecting a central flip-flop circuit that integrates contradictory sensory cues in C. elegans feeding regulation

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Li, Zhaoyu ^a   Li, Yidong ^a   Yi, Yalan ^a   Huang, Wenming ^a   Yang, Song ^a   Niu, Weipin ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Xu, Zijing ^a   Qu, Anlian ^a   Wu, Zhengxing ^a   Xu, Tao ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; GLR 7 PROTEIN; MOD 1 PROTEIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; TDC 1 PROTEIN; TPH 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INTERNEURON; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SYNAPSE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY RECEPTOR;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ODORS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SMELL;

EID: 84860290521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1780     Document Type: Article

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