The role of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits in autonomic ganglia: Lessons from knockout mice

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 341-360

  Wang, Ningshan ^a   Orr Urtreger, Avi ^a,b   Korczyn, Amos D ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIMETHYL 4 PHENYLPIPERAZINIUM; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BETHANECHOL; CYTISINE; EPIBATIDINE; ISOPRENALINE; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; OXOTREMORINE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0036939994     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0082(02)00106-5     Document Type: Review

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