Article
Reversal of a muscle response to GABA during C. elegans male development.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 1 Sept 1995
Reiner D J, Thomas J H
Abstract excerpt
In the C. elegans hermaphrodite the expulsion step of defecation depends on the coordinated contraction of three enteric muscle groups: the anal depressor muscle, the intestinal muscles, and the sphincter muscle. These muscles are activated by excitatory GABA neurotransmission. Mutations in 13 ge...
Topics
- Aging
- Anal Canal
- Animals
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Constipation
- Defecation
- Male
- Motor Neurons
- Muscle Development
- Muscle Relaxation
- Muscles
- Mutation
- Neural Inhibition
- Neuromuscular Junction
- Phenotype
- Sex Characteristics
- Synaptic Transmission
- gamma-Aminobutyric Acid