Comparison of neuronal nicotinic receptors in rat sympathetic neurones with subunit pairs expressed in Xenopus oocytes

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 481, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 27-34

  Covernton, P J ^a   Kojima, H ^a   Sivilotti, L G ^a   Gibb, A J ^a   Colquhoun, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIMETHYL 4 PHENYLPIPERAZINIUM IODIDE; ACETYLCHOLINE; CARBACHOL; CYTISINE; LOBELINE; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; RAT; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; XENOPUS;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; OOCYTES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0028144005     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1994.sp020416     Document Type: Article

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