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Effect of novel alpha-conotoxins on nicotine-stimulated [3H]dopamine release from rat striatal synaptosomes.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics - 1 Jan 2005
Azam Layla, McIntosh J Michael
Abstract excerpt
Nicotine's action on the midbrain dopaminergic neurons is mediated by nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) that are present on the cell bodies and the terminals of these neurons. Previously, it was suggested that one of the nAChR subtypes located on striatal dopaminergic terminals may be an alpha3beta2 subtype, based on partial inhibition of nicotine-stimulated [(3)H]dopamine release by alpha-conotoxin MII,...
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