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Differential expression of glutamate receptor subunits in the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans and their regulation by the homeodomain protein UNC-42.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 1 Mar 2001
Brockie P J, Madsen D M, Zheng Y, Mellem J, Maricq A V
Abstract excerpt
In almost all nervous systems, rapid excitatory synaptic communication is mediated by a diversity of ionotropic glutamate receptors. In Caenorhabditis elegans, 10 putative ionotropic glutamate receptor subunits have been identified, a surprising number for an organism with only 302 neurons. Sequence analysis of the predicted proteins identified two NMDA and eight non-NMDA receptor subunits. Here we describe the...
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