ACR-12 ionotropic acetylcholine receptor complexes regulate inhibitory motor neuron activity in Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 5524-5532

  Petrash, Hilary A ^a   Philbrook, Alison ^a   Haburcak, Marian ^a   Barbagallo, Belinda ^a   Francis, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALDICARB; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ACR 12; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GENOTYPE; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALDICARB; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LOCOMOTION; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 84875472213     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4384-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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