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SUBMITTER: Konop CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4769031 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Konop Christopher J CJ Knickelbine Jennifer J JJ Sygulla Molly S MS Vestling Martha M MM Stretton Antony O W AO
ACS chemical neuroscience 20150409 6
Neuropeptides are known to have dramatic effects on neurons and synapses; however, despite extensive studies of the motorneurons in the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum, their peptide content had not yet been described. We determined the peptide content of single excitatory motorneurons by mass spectrometry and tandem mass spectrometry. There are two subsets of ventral cord excitatory motorneurons, each with neuromuscular output either anterior or posterior to their cell body, mediating forward o ...[more]