Caenorhabditis elegans glia modulate neuronal activity and behavior

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Stout Jr , Randy F ^a   Verkhratsky, Alexei ^b,c,d   Parpura, Vladimir ^e,f  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^f University of Rijeka   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Behavior; Caenorhabditis elegans; Evolution; Glia; Invertebrate

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLIA CELL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

EID: 84917744381     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00067     Document Type: Review

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