Engineering neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors with functional sensitivity to α-bungarotoxin: A novel α3-knock-in mouse

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2064-2076

  Caffery, Philip M ^a   Krishnaswamy, Arjun ^b   Sanders, Tanya ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Hartlaub, Hilary ^a   Klysik, Jan ^c   Cooper, Ellis ^b   Hawrot, Edward ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Autonomic; Superior cervical ganglion; Trafficking

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; BINDING SITES; BUNGAROTOXINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 71249143564     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.07016.x     Document Type: Article

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