The Croonian lecture 2000. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and the structural basis of fast synaptic transmission

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1404, 2000, Pages 1813-1829

  Unwin, N ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Electron microscopy; Gap junction; Synapse

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034731271     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0737     Document Type: Review

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