Mice deficient in the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor lack α- bungarotoxin binding sites and hippocampal fast nicotinic currents

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 9165-9171

  Orr Urtreger, Avi ^a,b,c   Göldner, Finn M ^a   Saeki, Mayuko ^a   Lorenzo, Isabel ^a,b   Goldberg, Leah ^a,b   De Biasi, Mariella ^a   Dani, John A ^a   Patrick, James W ^a   Beaudet, Arthur L ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Gene targeting; Hippocampus; Mouse; Nicotine; bungarotoxin; 7 subunit

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; ACONITINE; ALPHA-BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; BUNGAROTOXIN; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; DRUG DERIVATIVE; METHYLLYCACONITINE; NERVE PROTEIN; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; TIME;

ACONITINE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BUNGAROTOXINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NICOTINE; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030613669     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-23-09165.1997     Document Type: Article

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