Mammalian nicotinic receptors with α7 subunits that slowly desensitize and rapidly recover from α-bungarotoxin blockade

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 10335-10344

  Cuevas, Javier ^a   Berg, Darwin K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Intracardiac ganglion; Neuronal; Nicotinic; Patch clamp; Receptors; bungarotoxin; 7

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; CYTISINE; EPIBATIDINE; IODINE 125; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; STRYCHNINE; TRITIUM; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GANGLION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032535583     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-24-10335.1998     Document Type: Article

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