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Dopamine mediates context-dependent modulation of sensory plasticity in C. elegans.
Neuron - 16 Aug 2007
Kindt Katie S, Quast Kathleen B, Giles Andrew C, De Subhajyoti, Hendrey Dan, Nicastro Ian, Rankin Catharine H, Schafer William R
Abstract excerpt
Dopamine has been implicated in the modulation of diverse forms of behavioral plasticity, including appetitive learning and addiction. An important challenge is to understand how dopamine's effects at the cellular level alter the properties of neural circuits to modify behavior. In the nematode C. elegans, dopamine modulates habituation of an escape reflex triggered by body touch. In the absence of food, animals...
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