Counting bungarotoxin binding sites of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in mammalian cells with high signal/noise ratios

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Simonson, Paul D ^a   DeBerg, Hannah A ^a   Ge, Pinghua ^a   Alexander, John K ^b   Jeyifous, Okunola ^b   Green, William N ^b   Selvin, Paul R ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 78549242357     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.08.076     Document Type: Article

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