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Dopamine Controls Locomotion By Modulating The Activity Of The Cholinergic Motor Neurons In C. Elegans, Andrew T. Allen
Dopamine Controls Locomotion By Modulating The Activity Of The Cholinergic Motor Neurons In C. Elegans, Andrew T. Allen
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter in the brain, where it plays a regulatory role in the coordination of movement and cognition by acting through two classes of G protein-coupled receptors to modulate synaptic activity. In addition, it has been shown these two receptor classes can exhibit synergistic or antagonistic effects on neurotransmission. However, while the pharmacology of the mammalian dopamine receptors have been characterized in some detail, less is known about the molecular pathways that act downstream of the receptors. As in mammals, the soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans uses two classes of dopamine receptors to control neural activity and thus …
Functional Analysis Of Receptor-Like Kinases In Pollen-Pistil Interactions In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Mini Aggarwal
Functional Analysis Of Receptor-Like Kinases In Pollen-Pistil Interactions In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Mini Aggarwal
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Rac/Rop GTPases are molecular switches in plants that control the growth of polarized cells such as pollen tubes and root hairs, differentiation, development, actin dynamics, production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and disease resistance. These small GTPases are activated by guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) that replace GDP for GTP and are referred to as RopGEFs in plants. To identify upstream components of the RopGEF regulated signaling pathways, GEF1 from Arabidopsis thaliana was used as a bait to screen a seedling cDNA library in a yeast two-hybrid system. This yielded members of a small family of the Catharanthus roseus Receptor-like …
Chemical Information Based Elastic Network Model: A Novel Way To Identification Of Vibration Frequencies In Proteins., Sharad K. Raj
Chemical Information Based Elastic Network Model: A Novel Way To Identification Of Vibration Frequencies In Proteins., Sharad K. Raj
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
A novel method of analysis of macromolecules has been worked upon through this research. In an effort to understand the dynamics of macromolecules and to further our knowledge, pertaining specifically to the low frequency domain and also to elucidate certain important biological functions associated with it, a theoretical technique of chemical information based Normal Mode Analysis has been developed. These simulations render users with the ability to generate animations of modeshapes as well as key insight on the associated vibration frequencies. Harmonic analysis using atomistic details is performed taking into account appropriate values of masses of constituent atoms of a …