A novel class of peptides with facilitating action on neuronal nicotinic receptors of rat chromaffin cells in vitro: Functional and molecular dynamics studies

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-54

  Di Angelantonio, Silvia ^a   Costa, Valeria ^a   Carloni, Paolo ^a   Messori, Luigi ^b   Nistri, Andrea ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; MENTAL DISEASE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CHROMAFFIN CELLS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NEURONS; NICOTINE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0036142564     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.61.1.43     Document Type: Article

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