Ability of nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs to act as partial agonists at fetal and adult mouse muscle nicotinic receptors

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 938-947

  Fletcher, George Harold ^a   Steinbach, Joe Henry ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; ATRACURIUM BESILATE; DIMETHYLTUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE; GALLAMINE TRIETHIODIDE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NICOTINIC AGENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PANCURONIUM BROMIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FETUS; FIBROBLAST; MOUSE; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COTURNIX; GUINEA PIGS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MICE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLES; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0029864950     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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