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Significance of P2X7 receptor variants to human health and disease.
Recent patents on DNA & gene sequences - 1 Apr 2011
Sluyter Ronald, Stokes Leanne
Abstract excerpt
The human P2X7 receptor is a trimeric ligand-gated cation channel coded by the P2XR7 gene located at chromosome position 12q24. P2X7 is expressed in a wide variety of normal and disease-associated cell types. Activation of this receptor by extracellular adenosine 5'-triphosphate results in numero...
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