Habituation is more than learning to ignore: multiple mechanisms serve to facilitate shifts in behavioral strategy

TA McDiarmid, AJ Yu, CH Rankin - BioEssays, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent work indicates that there are distinct response habituation mechanisms that can be
recruited by different stimulation rates and that can underlie different components (eg, the …

Working with Worms: Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model Organism

PM Meneely, CL Dahlberg… - Current Protocols …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Since its introduction as a laboratory organism 50 years ago, the nematode worm
Caenorhabditis elegans has become one of the most widely used and versatile models for …

Upconversion nanoparticles–based multiplex protein activation to neuron ablation for locomotion regulation

Y Zhang, W Zhang, K Zeng, Y Ao, M Wang, Z Yu, F Qi… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The optogenetic neuron ablation approach enables noninvasive remote decoding of specific
neuron function within a complex living organism in high spatiotemporal resolution …

Application of Fluorescence Microscopy and Behavioral Assays to Demonstrating Neuronal Connectomes and Neurotransmitter Systems in C. elegans

OM Ijomone, P Gubert, COA Okoh, AM Varão… - Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) is a prevailing model commonly utilized
in a variety of biomedical research fields, including neuroscience. Due to its transparency …

A low-cost microfluidic platform coupled with light emitting diode for optogenetic analysis of neuronal response in C. elegans

A Ge, L Hu, JX Fan, M Ge, X Wang, S Wang, X Feng… - Talanta, 2021 - Elsevier
Optogenetic method is widely used for dissecting the neuronal function and connectivity in a
specific neural circuit, which can help understanding how the animal process information …

Optogenetics in Caenorhabditis elegans

Y Tsukada, I Mori - Optogenetics: Light-Sensing Proteins and Their …, 2021 - Springer
With a compact neural circuit consisting of entirely mapped 302 neurons, Caenorhabditis
elegans plays an important role in the development and application of optogenetics …

Behavioural and genetic dissociation of faciliatatory processes in Caenorhabditis elegans

AJT Yu - 2018 - open.library.ubc.ca
The simplest forms of learning are non-associative learning. In non-associative learning,
both sensitization and dishabituation cause an increase in the behavioural response. A …