Title: Neuronal Plasticity Regulated by the Insulin-like Signaling Pathway Underlies Salt Chemotaxis
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1 learning in Caenorhabditis elegans 2 Running head: C. elegans Neuronal Plasticity 3 Authors and author addresses: 4 Shigekazu Oda, Masahiro Tomioka, and Yuichi Iino 5 Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics Research Laboratory, Graduate 6 School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan 7 Correspondence: Yuichi Iino [email protected] 8 Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 9 Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan 10 Tel/Fax:+81-3-5841-8293 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (April 27, 2011). doi:10.1152/jn.01029.2010
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