Nicotine is Highly Effective at Producing Desensitization of Rat α4β2 Neuronal Nicotinic Receptors
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- 1 December 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 553 (3) , 857-871
- https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.2003.053447
Abstract
We examined desensitization by acetylcholine (ACh) and nicotine at the rat α4β2 neuronal nicotinic receptor stably expressed in HEK cells. For both agonists, the decay in response due to desensitizat...Keywords
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