Nematodes feel a craving - Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model to study alcohol addiction

Neuroscience Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 595-600

  Zhu, Geng ^a   Zhang, Fen ^a   Li, Wei ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BK channel; C. elegans; ethanol; substance abuse

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MUNC18 PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y RECEPTOR; NPR-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; RAB PROTEIN; SEB-3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SLO-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CRAVING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; LIPID METABOLISM; MUNC18 PROTEINS; RAB3 GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84905988533     PISSN: 16737067     EISSN: 19958218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12264-014-1451-7     Document Type: Review

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