Diversity of mRNA expression for muscarinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes and neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits in human mononuclear leukocytes and leukemic cell lines

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-20

  Sato, Kazuo Z ^a   Fujii, Takeshi ^a   Watanabe, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamada, Shin ^a   Ando, Tsuyoshi ^a   Kazuko, Fujimoto ^a   Kawashima, Koichiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; B lymphocyte; Muscarinic receptor; Nicotinic receptor; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; T lymphocyte

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; MESSENGER RNA; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEUKEMIA CELL; MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CELL LINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; NEUTROPHILS; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0345086476     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00259-1     Document Type: Article

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