To a certain extent, all cellular, physiological, and pathological phenomena that occur in
cells are accompanied by ionic changes. The development of techniques allowing the …

Early embryological studies on amphibian oocytes, among them those of the South African
clawed frogs Xenopus laevis, concentrated on morphological and cytological processes that …

A full-length clone coding for the rat alpha 7 nicotinic receptor subunit was isolated from an
adult brain cDNA library and expressed in Xenopus oocytes. A significant proportion of the …

NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors and non-NMDA receptors represent the two major
classes of ion channel-linked glutamate receptors. Unlike the NMDA receptor channels, non …

EXCITATORY amino-acid transporters (EAATs) in the central nervous system maintain
extracellular glutamate concentrations below excitotoxic levels and may limit the activation …

We report the isolation and functional characterization of a member of the nicotinic
acetylcholine receptor subunit gene family, cc9. Xenopus oocytes injected with a9 cRNA …

The neurotransmitter glutamate mediates excitatory synaptic transmission throughout the
brain. A family of genes encoding subunits of the non-N-methyl-D-aspartate (non-NMDA) …

The sequence of 4968 (or 4976 with an insertion) amino acids composing the ryanodine
receptor from rabbit cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum has been deduced by cloning and …

Various gating mechanisms of ion channels have been described, such as the shift of the $4
subunit of voltage-operated ion channels, the ball-and-chain mechanism of K+ and some …

Human neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) hα2β2, hα2β4, hα3β2, hα3β4,
hα4β2, hα4β4 and hα7 were expressed in Xenopus oocytes and tested for their sensitivities …