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Vesicular neurotransmitter transporters in Drosophila melanogaster
Sonali A Deshpande1, Zachary Freyberg2, Hakeem O Lawal3
1Hatos Center for Neuropharmacology, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Semel Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. Biomembranes
|April 20, 2020
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.

