Identification of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors on lymphocytes in the periphery as well as thymus in mice

Immunology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 201-205

  Toyabe, S ^a   Hai, T ^a   Fukuda, M ^b   Kawamura, T ^a   Suzuki, S ^a   Uchiyama, M ^a   Abo, T ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sakamachi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; BINDING PROTEIN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MOUSE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 9844244026     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1997.00323.x     Document Type: Article

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