α‐Bungarotoxin‐sensitive Nicotinic Receptors on Bovine Chromaffin Cells: Molecular Cloning, Functional Expression and Alternative Splicing of the α7 Subunit

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 647-655

  García‐Guzmán, Miguel ^a   Sala, Francisco ^a   Sala, Salvador ^a   Campos‐Caro, Antonio ^a   Stühmer, Walter ^a   Gutiérrez, Luis M ^a   Criado, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

dominant inhibition; exon skipping; function; neuronal nicotinic receptor; 7 subunit

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINIC AGENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; OLIGOMER; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BINDING AFFINITY; CATTLE; CHICKEN; CHROMAFFIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; ION CURRENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SUCROSE GRADIENT; XENOPUS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BUNGAROTOXINS; CATTLE; CHICKENS; CHROMAFFIN SYSTEM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS;

EID: 0028988368     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1995.tb00668.x     Document Type: Article

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