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SUBMITTER: Zhang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3479501 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120926 42
The TGF-β superfamily is conserved throughout metazoan, and its members play essential roles in development and disease. TGF-β has also been implicated in adult neural plasticity. However, the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Here we report that DBL-1, a Caenorhabditis elegans TGF-β homolog known to control body morphology and immunity, is essential for aversive olfactory learning of potentially harmful bacteria food. We show that DBL-1 generated by the AVA command interneurons, wh ...[more]