A cellular and regulatory map of the cholinergic nervous system of C. Elegans

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue DECEMBER2015, 2015, Pages

  Pereira, Laura ^a   Kratsios, Paschalis ^a   Serrano Saiz, Esther ^a   Sheftel, Hila ^b   Mayo, Avi E ^b   Hall, David H ^c   White, John G ^d   LeBoeuf, Brigitte ^e   Garcia, L Rene ^e   Alon, Uri ^b   Hobert, Oliver ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; GLUTAMINE; MOLECULAR MARKER; SEROTONIN; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; GENDER IDENTITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HERMAPHRODITE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; FEMALE; INTERNEURON; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS;

EID: 84961266932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.12432     Document Type: Article

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