The Drosophila nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits Dα5 and Dα7 form functional homomeric and heteromeric ion channels

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lansdell, Stuart J ^a   Collins, Toby ^a   Goodchild, Jim ^b   Millar, Neil S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN I 125; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; CHAPERONE; ION CHANNEL; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; BUNGAROTOXINS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PYRIDINES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RAS PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT3; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84862581327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-13-73     Document Type: Article

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