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CELL TYPE LINEAGE LOCATION NEUROTRANSMITTER ASSOCIATED GLIA

AVM

Sensory neuron (mechanosensory)
QR paa
Lateral. Right side of the anterior half of the body.
Glutamate

Expresses VGluT, EAT-4 (Lee R.Y.N. et al 1999)
None

DESCRIPTION

Anterior ventral microtubule cell, touch receptor

Functions: Along with ALM and PLM, sense touch to the body and provide input to the command (inter)neurons (PVC, AVB, AVD, AVA) via both synaptic connections and gap junctions (Chalfie et al. 1985). The touch cells form gap junctions with agonist interneurons and chemical synapses with the antagonist interneurons. Hence, the anterior touch cells ALML/R and AVM form gap junctions with the backward movement interneuron AVD, but they provide synaptic input to the forward interneurons (AVB and PVC) (Kaplan J. and Driscoll M., 1997).

Receptor expression: Expresses MEC-2 (stomatin-like), MEC-4 (degenerin), MEC-10 (degenerin) which comprise part of a mechanosensory transduction channel (Huang M.X. et al 1995; Lai C.C. et al 1996). Expresses MEC-9 which is suggested to provide an extracellular attachment point for the mechanosensory channels in touch cells (Du H. et al, 1996) and MEC-6 which is part of the degenerin/epithelial Na⁺ channel complex (Chelur D. S. et al, 2002). Expresses the dopamine receptor DOP-1 (Tsalik E. L. et al, 2003).

CELL	TYPE	LINEAGE	LOCATION	NEUROTRANSMITTER	ASSOCIATED GLIA
AVM	Sensory neuron (mechanosensory)	QR paa	Lateral. Right side of the anterior half of the body.	Glutamate Expresses VGluT, EAT-4 (Lee R.Y.N. et al 1999)	None
DESCRIPTION
Anterior ventral microtubule cell, touch receptor Functions: Along with ALM and PLM, sense touch to the body and provide input to the command (inter)neurons (PVC, AVB, AVD, AVA) via both synaptic connections and gap junctions (Chalfie et al. 1985). The touch cells form gap junctions with agonist interneurons and chemical synapses with the antagonist interneurons. Hence, the anterior touch cells ALML/R and AVM form gap junctions with the backward movement interneuron AVD, but they provide synaptic input to the forward interneurons (AVB and PVC) (Kaplan J. and Driscoll M., 1997). Receptor expression: Expresses MEC-2 (stomatin-like), MEC-4 (degenerin), MEC-10 (degenerin) which comprise part of a mechanosensory transduction channel (Huang M.X. et al 1995; Lai C.C. et al 1996). Expresses MEC-9 which is suggested to provide an extracellular attachment point for the mechanosensory channels in touch cells (Du H. et al, 1996) and MEC-6 which is part of the degenerin/epithelial Na⁺ channel complex (Chelur D. S. et al, 2002). Expresses the dopamine receptor DOP-1 (Tsalik E. L. et al, 2003).