The miRNA Pathway Controls Rapid Changes in Activity-Dependent Synaptic Structure at the Drosophila melanogaster Neuromuscular Junction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Nesler, Katherine R ^a   Sand, Robert I ^a   Symmes, Breanna A ^a   Pradhan, Sarala J ^a   Boin, Nathan G ^a   Laun, Anna E ^a   Barbee, Scott A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 1; MICRORNA 289; MICRORNA 314; MICRORNA 8; MICRORNA 958; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT1 PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE GROWTH; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; RNA TRANSLATION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; LARVA; MICRORNAS; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84879742663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068385     Document Type: Article

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