Intercellular calcium signaling in a gap junction-coupled cell network establishes asymmetric neuronal fates in C. elegans

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 139, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 4191-4201

  Schumacher, Jennifer A ^a   Hsieh, Yi Wen ^a   Chen, Shiuhwei ^b   Pirri, Jennifer K ^c   Alkema, Mark J ^c   Li, Wen Hong ^b   Chang, Chieh ^a   Chuang, Chiou Fen ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Calcium signaling; Gap junctions; Stochastic left right neuronal asymmetry

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; PROTEIN NYS 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GAP JUNCTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEURONS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84867892749     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.083428     Document Type: Article

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