Behavioral and electrophysiological outcomes of tissue-specific Smn knockdown in Drosophila melanogaster

Brain Research

Volumn 1489, Issue , 2012, Pages 66-80

  Timmerman, Christina ^a   Sanyal, Subhabrata ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Homeostasis; Motor behavior; SMN; Spinal muscular atrophy; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GLUTAMATES; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUS;

EID: 84869491358     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.10.035     Document Type: Article

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