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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2002
Ralph J Greenspan, Coronado, CA (US);
Ralph J Greenspan, Coronado, CA (US);
Neurosciences Research Foundation, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method of identifying a compound that modulates a mammalian vestibular system. The method consists of administering a test compound to an invertebrate, and measuring a geotactic behavior of the invertebrate, where a compound that modulates the geotactic behavior of the invertebrate is characterized as a compound that modulates a mammalian vestibular system. The invention also provides a method of identifying a gene that modulates a mammalian vestibular system consisting of obtaining a first and a second strain of an invertebrate; subjecting the first and second invertebrate strains to conditions in which the first strain exhibits a geotactic behavior different than a geotactic behavior exhibited by the second strain; measuring gene expression levels in the first and second strains, and identifying one or more genes that are differentially expressed in the first strain relative to the second strain, whereby a mammalian gene having substantially the same nucleic acid sequence as the one or more differentially expressed genes modulates the mammalian vestibular system.