Activation and inhibition of tph2 serotonergic neurons operate in tandem to influence larval zebrafish preference for light over darkness

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Cheng, Ruey Kuang ^a   Krishnan, Seetha ^b   Jesuthasan, Suresh ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Duke NUS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DARKNESS; DECISION MAKING; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; LARVA; LIGHT; METABOLISM; OPTOGENETICS; RADIATION RESPONSE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DARKNESS; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; LARVA; LIGHT; OPTOGENETICS; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS; SEROTONIN; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84958074140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20788     Document Type: Article

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