Development and plasticity of the Drosophila larval neuromuscular junction

KP Menon, RA Carrillo, K Zinn - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The Drosophila larval neuromuscular system is relatively simple, containing only 32 motor
neurons in each abdominal hemisegment, and its neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) have …

Synapse maturation and structural plasticity at Drosophila neuromuscular junctions

V Budnik - Current opinion in neurobiology, 1996 - Elsevier
The Drosophila larval neuromuscular junction has recently emerged as a powerful model
system to characterize the cellular and molecular events involved in the formation and …

A new antigen receptor gene family that undergoes rearrangement and extensive somatic diversification in sharks

AS Greenberg, D Avila, M Hughes, A Hughes… - nature, 1995 - nature.com
IMMUNOGLOBULIN and T-cell receptor (TCR) molecules are central to the adaptive
immune system. Sequence conservation, similarities in domain structure, and usage of …

A conditional tissue-specific transgene expression system using inducible GAL4

T Osterwalder, KS Yoon, BH White… - Proceedings of the …, 2001 - National Acad Sciences
In Drosophila, the most widely used system for generating spatially restricted transgene
expression is based on the yeast GAL4 protein and its target upstream activating sequence …

Improved stability of Drosophila larval neuromuscular preparations in haemolymph-like physiological solutions

BA Stewart, HL Atwood, JJ Renger, J Wang… - Journal of Comparative …, 1994 - Springer
Neuromuscular preparations from third instar larvae of Drosophila are not well-maintained in
commonly used physiological solutions: vacuoles form in the muscle fibers, and membrane …

Ectopic and increased expression of Fasciclin II alters motoneuron growth cone guidance

DM Lin, CS Goodman - Neuron, 1994 - cell.com
We used the enhancer detection/GAL4 system in Drosophila to direct increased levels of
Fasciclin II (Fas II) expression on motoneuron growth cones and axons and to direct ectopic …

Clonal analysis of Drosophila embryonic neuroblasts: neural cell types, axon projections and muscle targets

A Schmid, A Chiba, CQ Doe - Development, 1999 - journals.biologists.com
An experimental analysis of neurogenesis requires a detailed understanding of wild-type
neural development. Recent DiI cell lineage studies have begun to elucidate the family of …

The origin, location, and projections of the embryonic abdominal motorneurons of Drosophila

M Landgraf, T Bossing, GM Technau… - Journal of …, 1997 - Soc Neuroscience
We have used a retrograde labeling technique to identify motorneurons for each of the 30
body wall muscles of an abdominal hemisegment in the late stage 16 Drosophila embryo …

Genes that control neuromuscular specificity in Drosophila

D Van Vactor, H Sink, D Fambrough, R Tsoo… - Cell, 1993 - cell.com
David Van Vactor, Helen Sink, Douglas Fambrough, Rosalie Tsoo, and Corey S. Goodman
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of …

Regulation of DLG localization at synapses by CaMKII-dependent phosphorylation

YH Koh, E Popova, U Thomas, LC Griffith, V Budnik - Cell, 1999 - cell.com
Discs large (DLG) mediates the clustering of synaptic molecules. Here we demonstrate that
synaptic localization of DLG itself is regulated by CaMKII. We show that DLG and CaMKII …