Purinergic Neurotransmission and Nucleotide Receptors

Primer on the Autonomic Nervous System

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 87-93

  Burnstock, Geoffrey ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adenosine; Apoptosis; ATP; Cell proliferation; Cotransmission; Heteromultimers; Neuromodulation; Neuromuscular; P1; P2X; P2Y; Plasticity; Purines; Purinoceptors; Pyrimidines; Secretion; Synapses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876079959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-386525-0.00018-4     Document Type: Chapter

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