Methamphetamine modulates ACh-evoked currents in Xenopus oocytes expressing the rat α7 receptors

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 239, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 73-76

  Nomura, Tamotsu ^a   Nishizaki, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACh; Methamphetamine; Neuronal 7 receptor; Voltage clamp; Xenopus oocyte

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; METHAMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG SENSITIZATION; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VOLTAGE CLAMP; XENOPUS;

1-(5-ISOQUINOLINESULFONYL)-2-METHYLPIPERAZINE; ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; INDOLES; ISOQUINOLINES; MALEIMIDES; METHAMPHETAMINE; OOCYTES; PROTEIN KINASE C; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SULFONAMIDES; XENOPUS;

EID: 0031578762     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00911-7     Document Type: Article

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