α7 Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor knockout selectively enhances ethanol-, but not β-amyloid-induced neurotoxicity

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 373, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 42-47

  De Fiebre, Nancyellen C ^a   De Fiebre, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Ethanol; Neurotoxicity; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; Amyloid

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALPHA-BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; INHIBITION KINETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ETHANOL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; XENOPUS;

EID: 8844248656     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.09.054     Document Type: Article

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