neurotransmitters

Peden, A.S., P. Mac, Y.J. Fei, C. Castro, G. Jiang, K.J. Murfitt, E.A. Miska,  V. Ganapathy, E.M.Jorgensen. 2013. Betaine acts on ligand-gated ion channel in the nervous system of the nematode C. elegans.  Nature Neuroscience 

Jospin, M., Y.B. Qi, T. Stawicki, T. Boulin, K.R. Schuske, H.R. Horvitz, J.L. Bessereau, E.M. Jorgensen and Y. Jin. 2009. A neuronal acetylcholine receptor regulates the balance of muscle excitation and inhibition in C. elegans. PLoS Biology 7, e1000265.

Beg, A., P., G. Ernstrom, P. Nix, M.W. Davis and E.M. Jorgensen. 2008. Protons act as a transmitter for muscle contraction in C. elegans. Cell 132: 149-160.

Schuske, K. M.T. Palfreyman, S. Watanabe, and E. M. Jorgensen. 2007. UNC-46, a novel protein required for trafficking of the vesicular GABA transporter. Nature Neuroscience 10, 846-853.

Wardell, B., P.S. Marik, D. Piper, T. Rutar, E.M. Jorgensen and B.A. Bamber. 2006.  Residues in the first transmembrane domain of the Caenorhabditis elegans GABAA receptor confer sensitivity to the neurosteroid pregnenolone sulfate.  Brit. J. Pharm.  148, 162-172.

Bamber, B.A., J.E. Richmond, J.F. Otto and E.M. Jorgensen. 2005.  The composition of the GABA receptor at the Caenorhabditis elegans neuromuscular junction.  Br. J. Pharm. 144, 502 - 509.

Jorgensen, E.M.  2005.  GABA. WormBook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community, WormBook, doi/10.1895/wormbook.1.14.1, http://www.wormbook.org.  Book Chapter.

Schuske, K., and E.M. Jorgensen, 2004. The vesicular glutamate transporter: shooting blanks.  Science 304, 1750-1752. Review.

Schuske, K., A. Beg, and E.M. Jorgensen, 2004. The GABA nervous system in Caenorhabditis elegans.  Trends in Neurosci. 27, p407-414. Review.

Beg, A., and E.M. Jorgensen. 2003. An excitatory GABA receptor. Nature Neuroscience 6, 1145-1152.
• Commentary: Exciting guts with GABA.  Goaillard, J-M., and E. Marder.  2003. Nature Neuroscience 6, 1121-1122.

Bamber, B.A.; R.E. Twyman, and E.M. Jorgensen. 2003. Pharmacological characterization of the homomeric and heteromeric UNC-49 GABA receptors in C. elegans  British Journal Pharmacology, 138, 883-893.

Halevi, S., J. McKay, M. Palfreyman, L. Yassin, M. Eshel, E. Jorgensen, and M. Treinin. 2002. The C. elegans ric-3 gene is required for maturation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.  EMBO J. 21, 1012-1020.

Richmond, J.E., and E.M. Jorgensen. 1999. One GABA and two acetylcholine receptors function at the C. elegans neuromuscular junction. Nature Neuroscience 2, 791-797.

Bamber, B., Beg, A., Twyman, R. and E.M. Jorgensen. 1999. The Caenorhabditis elegans unc-49 locus encodes multiple subunits of a heteromultimeric GABA receptor  J. Neuroscience 19, 5348-5359.

Jin, Y., Jorgensen, E., Hartwieg, E. and H.R. Horvitz. 1999. The C. elegans gene unc-25 encodes glutamic acid decarboxylase and is required for synaptic transmission but not synaptic development. J. Neuroscience 19, 539-548.

McIntire, S.L., R.J. Reimer, K. Schuske, R.H. Edwards and E.M. Jorgensen. 1997. Identification and characterization of the vesicular GABA transporter. Nature 389, 870-876.

McIntire, S., E.M. Jorgensen, and H.R. Horvitz. 1993. Genes required for GABA function in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 364: 334-337.

McIntire, S., E.M. Jorgensen, J. Kaplan and H.R. Horvitz. 1993. The GABAergic nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 364: 337-341.