Dendrites are dispensable for basic motoneuron function but essential for fine tuning of behavior

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 50, 2014, Pages 18049-18054

  Ryglewski, Stefanie ^a   Kadas, Dimitrios ^a   Hutchinson, Katie ^a   Schuetzler, Natalie ^a   Vonhoff, Fernando ^a,b   Duch, Carsten ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Courtship; Dendrite; Drosophila; Motor behavior; Synapse

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CALCIUM ION; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DOWN SYNDROME CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DENDRITE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FLIGHT; FLIGHT MUSCLE; FORELIMB; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATING SUCCESS; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SURVIVAL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL INFORMATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; FLYING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DENDRITES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84919343870     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1416247111     Document Type: Article

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