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Abnormal avoidance learning in mice lacking functional high-affinity nicotine receptor in the brain.
Nature - 2 Mar 1995
Picciotto M R, Zoli M, Léna C, Bessis A, Lallemand Y, Le Novère N, Vincent P, Pich E M, Brûlet P, Changeux J P
Abstract excerpt
Nicotine affects many aspects of behaviour including learning and memory through its interaction with neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR). Functional nAChRs are pentameric proteins containing at least one type of alpha-subunit and one type of beta-subunit. The involvement of a particular neuronal nicotinic subunit in pharmacology and behaviour was examined using gene targeting to mutate beta 2, the...
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