Requirement for endocytosis and intracellular trafficking in C. elegans necrotic neurodegeneration
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Supplementary Figures and Legends Figure S1 Time-course analysis of mec-4(d)-induced degeneration in mec-4(d) animals and in double mutants combining mutations in mec-4 and the endocytic genes snt-1 and unc-57 or the kinesin genes unc-116 and unc-104. The number of touch receptor neuron corpses at the indicated developmental stage, per 100 mec-4(d) animals is shown. Error bars denote S.E.M. values (n>250; P<0.001, compared to control animals, unpaired t-test).
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