Agonist responses of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are potentiated by a novel class of allosterically acting ligands

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-6

  Schrattenholz, Andre ^a   Pereira, Edna F R ^b,c   Roth, Ulrich ^a   Weber, Karl Heinz ^a   Albuquerque, Edson X ^b,c   Maelicke, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BRAIN RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GALANTAMINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC AGENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG RESPONSE; LIGAND BINDING; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLOSTERIC SITE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PC12 CELLS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 0030023684     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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