VAV-1 acts in a single interneuron to inhibit motor circuit activity in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Fry, Amanda L ^a   Laboy, Jocelyn T ^a   Norman, Kenneth R ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALDICARB; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; LEVAMISOLE; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VAV 1 PROTEIN; VAV PROTEIN; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; NERVE PROTEIN; PENTETRAZOLE; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; RHODOPSIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VAV-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

AMINO ACID; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTION; NEMATODE; NEUROLOGY;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOTONEURON; MOTONEURON CIRCUIT ACTIVITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PHOTOACTIVATION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ALDICARB; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; INTERNEURONS; LEVAMISOLE; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARALYSIS; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-VAV; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; RHODOPSIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84923282681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6579     Document Type: Article

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