Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor - Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, or nAChRs, are ionotropic receptors that form ion channels in cells' plasma membranes. Like the other type of acetylcholine receptors, muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, their opening is triggered by the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, but they are also opened by nicotine (Siegel et al.
Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor - Muscarinic receptors are those membrane-bound acetylcholine receptors that are more sensitive to muscarine than to nicotine. Those for which the contrary is true are known as nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
Acetylcholine receptor - An acetylcholine receptor (abbreviated AChR) is an integral membrane protein that responds to the binding of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.
Hexamethonium - Hexamethonium is an nAch receptor antagonist (it blocks transmission at nicotinic cholinergic receptors by preventing the acetylcholine molecules from binding to the site of the R). Nicotinic receptors are so-named because of the agonistic effects of the drug nicotine at these sites.
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Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors: From Molecular Biology to Cognition Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors: From Molecular Biology to Cognition
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