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Altered ivermectin pharmacology and defective visual system in Drosophila mutants for histamine receptor HCLB.
Invertebrate neuroscience : IN - 1 Dec 2008
Yusein Shazie, Velikova Nadya, Kupenova Petia, Hardie Roger, Wolstenholme Adrian, Semenov Eugene
Abstract excerpt
The Drosophila gene hclB encodes a histamine-gated chloride channel, which can be activated by the neurotoxin ivermectin when expressed in vitro. We have identified two novel hclB mutants, carrying either a missense mutation (P293S, allele hclB (T1)) or a putative null mutation (W111*, allele hclB (T2)), as well as a novel splice form of the gene. In survival studies, hclB (T1) mutants were more sensitive to...
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