Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor structure and function in the efferent auditory system

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 424-434

  Lustig, Lawrence R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlea; Efferent; Hair cell; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA10; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA9; PROSAPOSIN; SPHINGOLIPID ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUDITORY SYSTEM; COCHLEA; DNA LIBRARY; EAR DISEASE; HAIR CELL; HEARING LOSS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SECOND MESSENGER; SIGNAL DETECTION; TINNITUS; VERTIGO;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEA; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HAIR CELLS, OUTER; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURAL INHIBITION; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SAPOSINS;

EID: 33645739376     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20302     Document Type: Review

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