Heterogeneity and regulation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

RJ Lukas, M Bencherif - International review of neurobiology, 1992 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs).
This component emphasizes studies done using mammalian tissues or their derivatives, and …

Electrophysiological characterization of a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor on leech neuropile glial cells

K Ballanyi, WR Schlue - Glia, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
Ion‐selective double‐barrelled microelcetrodes were used to measure the activities of
intracellular K+, Na+, Cl−, and H+ (a, a, a, pHi) and membrane potential (Em) in neuropile …

Stochastic approaches to the study of synaptic function

R Fesce - Progress in neurobiology, 1990 - Elsevier
4. Noise analysis and the study of ion channels 4.1. General principles and applications 4.2.
Ligand gated channels: the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor 4.2. 1. Acetylcholine molecular …

Domain loss enabled evolution of novel functions in a gene superfamily

I Koludarov, T Senoner, TNW Jackson, D Dashevsky… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Three-finger toxins (3FTxs) are a functionally diverse family of toxins, apparently
unique to venoms of caenophidian snakes. Although the ancestral function of 3FTxs is …

Interactions of the thymic polypeptide hormone thymopoietin with neuronal nicotinic alpha-bungarotoxin binding sites and with muscle-type, but not ganglia-type …

RJ Lukas, T Audhya, G Goldstein, L Lucero - Molecular pharmacology, 1990 - ASPET
Studies were conducted to assess the ability of the thymic polypeptide hormone
thymopoietin (TPO) to interact with proto-typical ganglia-type or muscle-type nicotinic …

Function of nicotinic synapses

D Colquhoun, AB Cachelin, CG Marshall… - Progress in Brain …, 1990 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the function of nicotinic synapses. There are at
least three types of synapse, at which the primary transmitter is acetylcholine (ACh) working …

Evidence for the putative roles of GABAergic, cholinergic and octopaminergic pharmacology in the auditory system of the cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus

K Naraine - 2005 - escholarship.mcgill.ca
In the field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus, two types of auditory intemeurons, AN2 and ONl,
have been studied. AN2 responds best to ultrasound frequencies (~ 20kHz) produced by …