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Avoidance Behavior of Nematodes to Environmental Toxicants or Stresses

  • Dayong Wang
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Abstract

Nematodes will exhibit an avoidance behavior once facing upon environmental toxicants or stresses, which can be still defined as a protective strategy against the toxicity of environmental toxicants or stresses. We here mainly introduced and discussed the neurons and identified neuronal circuits involved in the regulation of avoidance behavior to environmental toxicants or stress and the underlying molecular basis. Meanwhile, we also introduced and discussed the potential intestinal function in regulating avoidance behavior to environmental toxicants or stresses.

Keywords

Avoidance behavior Neurons Neuronal circuit Intestinal function Environmental exposure Caenorhabditis elegans 
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  • Dayong Wang
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  1. 1.School of MedicineSoutheast UniversityNanjingChina

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