Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and neurodegenerative disease

Alcohol

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 79-81

  Nakamura, Shigenobu ^a   Takahashi, Tetsuya ^a   Yamashita, Hiroshi ^a   Kawakami, Hideshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Nerve growth factor (NGF); Nicotine; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; HEXAMETHONIUM; ION CHANNEL; MECAMYLAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROTECTION; CELL STRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENE EXPRESSION; MICRODIALYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA CELL; RAT; SERUM; SMOKING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NICOTINE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 0034885975     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0741-8329(01)00150-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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