Ligand-gated channels

IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 70-80

  Barry, Peter H ^a   Lynch, Joseph W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor channel; Channel gating; Glycine receptor channel; Ion permeation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; IONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROLOGY; PROTEINS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR CHANNELS; CHANNEL GATING; GLYCINE RECEPTORS; ION PERMEATION;

CELLS;

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; ION CHANNEL; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 15244363737     PISSN: 15361241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNB.2004.842497     Document Type: Article

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