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Strongly alkaline pH avoidance mediated by ASH sensory neurons in C. elegans.
Neuroscience letters - 25 Oct 2013
Sassa Toshihiro, Murayama Takashi, Maruyama Ichi N
Abstract excerpt
High pH is a noxious stimulus to animals, and their ability to avoid dangerously alkaline pH is critical for survival. However, the means by which they sense high pH has not been determined. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) avoids environmental pH above 10.5. In contrast, C. elegans mutants with structurally, developmentally, and/or functionally abnormal sensory cilia fail to avoid high pH,...
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