Autoradiographic localisation of muscarinic cholinergic receptor subtypes in human placenta

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 247, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 167-170

  Tayebati, Seyed Khosrow ^a   Vitaioli, Lucia ^b   Zaccheo, Damiano ^c   Amenta, Francesco ^a  

^a Sezione di Anatomia Umana   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoradiography; Human; Muscarinic cholinergic receptor subtypes; Placenta; Syncytiotrophoblast

Indexed keywords

MUSCARINIC M1 RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC M2 RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC M3 RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC M4 RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 17144434332     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00307-3     Document Type: Article

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