nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

noun

A particular acetylcholine receptor which is also an ion channel.

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nounnicotinic acetylcholine receptor (plural nicotinic acetylcholine receptors)

plural nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

  1. biochemistryA particular acetylcholine receptor which is also an ion channel.

    These results lead us to propose that the nervous system expresses diverse forms of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by combining β2 subunits with different agonist-binding α subunits.

    , Deneris, Evan S., et al., “Primary structure and expression of β2: A novel subunit of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors”, in Neuron, volume 1, →PMID, page 45
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