Alpha subunit composition of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the rat autonomic ganglia neurons as determined with subunit-specific anti-α(181-192) peptide antibodies

Neuroscience

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1427-1436

  Skok, M V ^a   Voitenko, L P ^b   Voitenko, S V ^b   Y Lykhmus, E ^a   Kalashnik, E N ^a   Litvin, T I ^a   Tzartos, S J ^c   Skok, V I ^b  

^a PALLADIN INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Ukraine)

^b BOGOMOLETZ INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^c HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alpha subunits; Antibodies; Autonomic ganglia; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RABBIT ANTISERUM; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEART NERVE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; MALE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEURONS; PC12 CELLS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RABBITS; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION;

EID: 0032791164     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00160-8     Document Type: Article

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