Neuron-Specific Feeding RNAi in C. elegans and Its Use in a Screen for Essential Genes Required for GABA Neuron Function

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Firnhaber, Christopher ^a   Hammarlund, Marc ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TYPE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 3; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC SCREENING; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; RNA INTERFERENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOMES; DOPAMINE; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, ESSENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84888255506     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003921     Document Type: Article

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