Subtypes of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are constructed from
numerous subunit combinations that compose channel-receptor complexes with varied …

Chronic administration of nicotine increases the density of neuronal cholinergic nicotinic
receptors in cells and in rodent brain, and similar increases have been reported in brains …

Molecular identification of the genes and resulting protein sequences for a large number of
nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunits has stimulated numerous studies …

Although the psychopharmacological effects of nicotine have been known since the last
century, it was not until the end of the 1980s that neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors …

There is a great deal of interest in the role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the central
nervous system, although their function is not well understood at present. Currently, central …

Molecular genetic and pharmacological studies have suggested that several subtypes of
nicotinic acetylcholine receptors exist in the mammalian and avian brain. Combining 3H‐(−) …

Mapping of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subtypes and subunits in human brain
is far from complete, however it is clear that multiple subunits are present (including α3, α4 …

Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors consist of different subunits, α and β, with different
subtype arrangement corresponding to distinct pharmacological and functional properties …

During the last decade, brain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors were extensively
characterized from electrophysiological and pharmacological points of view. These …

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) belong to the “Cys-loop” superfamily of ligand-
gated ion channels that includes GABA A, glycine, and serotonin (5-HT 3) receptors. There …