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Dopamine modulates the plasticity of mechanosensory responses in Caenorhabditis elegans.
The EMBO journal - 28 Jan 2004
Sanyal Suparna, Wintle Richard F, Kindt Katie S, Nuttley William M, Arvan Rokhand, Fitzmaurice Paul, Bigras Eve, Merz David C, Hébert Terence E, van der Kooy Derek, Schafer William R, Culotti Joseph G, Van Tol Hubert H M
Abstract excerpt
Dopamine-modulated behaviors, including information processing and reward, are subject to behavioral plasticity. Disruption of these behaviors is thought to support drug addictions and psychoses. The plasticity of dopamine-mediated behaviors, for example, habituation and sensitization, are not well understood at the molecular level. We show that in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a D1-like dopamine receptor...
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