Functional phenotypic rescue of caenorhabditis elegans neuroligin-deficient mutants by the human and rat NLGN1 genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; FRUCTOSE; NEUROLIGIN 1;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MUSCLE CELL; MUTANT; NERVE CELL; NLGN1 GENE; NLGN3 GENE; NLGN4 GENE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOUCH; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FRUCTOSE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MUSCLE CELLS; MUTATION; NEURONS; OSMOSIS; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOUCH;

EID: 84862506156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039277     Document Type: Article

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