Concentration memory-dependent synaptic plasticity of a taste circuit regulates salt concentration chemotaxis in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kunitomo, Hirofumi ^a   Sato, Hirofumi ^a   Iwata, Ryo ^a   Satoh, Yohsuke ^a   Ohno, Hayao ^a   Yamada, Koji ^a   Iino, Yuichi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADAPTATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MEMORY; MIGRATION; NEMATODE; NEUROLOGY; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; SALT; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CULTURE; CHEMOTAXIS; INTERNEURON; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASTE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84881357155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3210     Document Type: Article

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