Chun-Fang Wu

TL;DR: This article provides a modern summary of the characteristics defining habituation, and can serve as a convenient primer for those whose research involves stimulus repetition.

TL;DR: Haemolymph-like solutions allow for prolonged, stable recording of synaptic transmission, and Voltage-clamp experiments suggest that these effects are linked to more pronounced activation of muscle fiber membrane conductances in standard solutions, rather than to differences in passive muscle membrane properties or changes in postsynaptic receptor channel kinetics.

TL;DR: It is reported that overexpression of the msrA gene predominantly in the nervous system markedly extends the lifespan of the fruit fly Drosophila, suggesting that oxidative damage is an important determinant of lifespan, and MSRA may be important in increasing the lifespan in other organisms including humans.

TL;DR: The innervation of ventral longitudinal abdominal muscles of third-instar Drosophila larvae was investigated with Nomarski, confocal, and electron microscopy to define the ultrastructural features of synapse-bearing terminals.

TL;DR: An anatomical and electrophysiological study of Drosophila mutants has been made to determine the effect of altered electrical activity on the development and maintenance of larval neuromuscular junctions, which revealed rhythmic bursts of spikes in eag Sh mutants.