Mechanisms of plasticity in a Caenorhabditis elegans mechanosensory circuit

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 4 AUG, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bozorgmehr, Tahereh ^a   Ardiel, Evan L ^a   McEwan, Andrea H ^a   Rankin, Catharine H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

C. Elegans; Context conditioning; Habituation; Long term memory; Non associative learning; Short term memory; Tap withdrawal response

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AGING; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEVELOPMENT; DOWN REGULATION; HABITUATION; INTERNEURON; LARVA; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

EID: 84884539615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00088     Document Type: Review

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