α-Conotoxin-ImI: A competitive antagonist at α-bungarotoxin-sensitive neuronal nicotinic receptors in hippocampal neurons

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 278, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1472-1483

  Pereira, Edna F R ^a   Alkondon, M ^a   Mcintosh, J Michael ^b   Albuquerque, Edson X ^a,c  

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

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

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; ACONITINE DERIVATIVE; ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; ATROPINE; CONOTOXIN; CURARE; DIHYDRO BETA ERYTHROIDINE; GLYCINE; KAINIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; QUISQUALIC ACID; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CELLS, CULTURED; CONOTOXINS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MUSCLES; NEURONS; NICOTINIC ANTAGONISTS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN;

EID: 0030431228     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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