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. 2018 Oct 17;9:4311. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-06819-5

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Glutamate signaling from ASH to AIB mediates both quinine-induced reversal initiation and feeding suppression. a, b Both reversal initiation and feeding suppression induced by quinine were abolished in eat-4 mutant worms, and were dramatically declined in worms expressing eat-4 RNAi as a transgene in ASH. Specific expression of wild-type eat-4 gene in ASH partially rescued low-concentration quinine-induced reversal initiation, and fully restored high-concentration quinine-induced reversal initiation (a) and feeding suppression (b). Error bars: s.e.m. Reversal index, n = 6 groups, 10 worms/group at least; Pumping rate, n = 16 worms. ***p < 0.001 (t test or Wilcoxon test). c Calcium imaging shown that eat-4 is required for quinine-induced calcium elevation in AIB. Left: average trace. The shades around traces indicate error bars (s.e.m.). n ≥ 14. **p < 0.01 (t test)