Menthol enhances the desensitization of human α3β4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 256-264

  Ton, Hoai T ^a   Smart, Amanda E ^a   Aguilar, Brittany L ^a   Olson, Thao T ^a   Kellar, Kenneth J ^b   Ahern, Gerard P ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; EPIBATIDINE; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; ION CHANNEL; MENTHOL; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA3BETA4; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ALLOSTERISM; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NODOSE GANGLION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MENTHOL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NICOTINE; NODOSE GANGLION; PYRIDINES; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84939805434     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: 15210111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.115.098285     Document Type: Article

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