Netrin and frazzled regulate presynaptic gap junctions at a Drosophila giant synapse

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5416-5430

  Orr, Brian O ^a   Borgen, Melissa A ^a   Caruccio, Phyllis M ^a   Murphey, Rodney K ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Electrophysiology; Frazzled; Gap junctions; Giant fiber system; Netrin

Indexed keywords

NETRIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DEPRESSION; DROSOPHILA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; GAP JUNCTION; GENOTYPE; GLIA CELL; IMAGING; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STIMULATION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

DROSOPHILA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FRAZZLED; GAP JUNCTIONS; GIANT FIBER SYSTEM; NETRIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DENDRITES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE NET; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PUPA; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84899480973     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3183-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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