Functional nicotinic acetylcholine receptors that mediate ganglionic transmission in cardiac parasympathetic neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 5076-5082

  Bibevski, Steve ^a,b   Zhou, Yuefang ^b,c   Michael McIntosh, J ^a,b,d   Zigmond, Richard E ^a,b,c   Dunlap, Mark E ^a,e  

^a Departments of Physiology   (United States)

^b Department of Biophysics ^*  (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Cardiac; Ganglion; Neuronal; Nicotinic receptor; Parasympathetic; conotoxin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; CONOTOXIN; HEXAMETHONIUM BROMIDE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DOG; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0034235664     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-13-05076.2000     Document Type: Article

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