Nematode Pharmacology: Neurotransmitters, Receptors, and Experimental Approaches

This chapter focuses on the advantages and limitations of nematodes as pharmacological models, neurotransmitter receptor systems and intracellular signaling cascades and Caenorhabditis elegans and drug discovery. The efficacy of some experimental approaches developed to understand the effects of drugs and chemicals that are used to treat parasitic nematode infections of animals and plants is also discussed.