Vesicular neurotransmitter transporters in Drosophila melanogaster.

Deshpande S¹, Freyberg Z², Lawal HO³, Krantz DE⁴.

Author information:
1. Hatos Center for Neuropharmacology, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Semel Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2. Departments of Psychiatry and Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
3. Department of Biological Sciences, Delaware State University, Dover, DE, United States of America.
4. Hatos Center for Neuropharmacology, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Semel Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: dkrantz@ucla.edu.

Abstract

Drosophila melanogaster express vesicular transporters for the storage of neurotransmitters acetylcholine, biogenic amines, GABA, and glutamate. The large array of powerful molecular-genetic tools available in Drosophila enhances the use of this model organism for studying transporter function and regulation.

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