'Orphan' α6 nicotinic AChR subunit can form a functional heteromeric acetylcholine receptor

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 320-327

  Gerzanich, V ^a   Kuryatov, A ^a   Anand, R ^a   Lindstrom, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

1,1 DIMETHYL 4 PHENYLPIPERAZINIUM; ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCIUM ION; CATION CHANNEL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTISINE; EPIBATIDINE; NICOTINE; PARTIAL AGONIST; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS LAEVIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; RATS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 0030610941     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.51.2.320     Document Type: Article

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