Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Sensory Cortex

Learning and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 50-59

  Metherate, Raju ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; NICOTINE; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0842325786     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.69904     Document Type: Review

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