Pharmacology of Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subtypes

Advances in Pharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue C, 1997, Pages 191-220

  Colquhoun, Lorna M ^a   Patrick, James W ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PRESYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; GANGLION; GENETICS; HABENULA; HIPPOCAMPUS; METABOLISM; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE CELL; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BRAIN; GANGLIA; HABENULA; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURONS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECEPTORS, PRESYNAPTIC;

EID: 0030627685     PISSN: 10543589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-3589(08)60072-1     Document Type: Article

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