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Abstract
The autoradiographic visualisation of 90%-specific tritiated nicotine binding to slide-mounted sections of rat brain is reported. Tritiated nicotine bound with high affinity (nanomolar Kd) and was selectively displaced by nicotinic agonists (e.g. L-nicotine approximately ACh greater than D-nicotine). The strikingly discrete distribution pattern obtained deviates from that of alpha-bungarotoxin, and suggests several possible roles for nicotinic transmission in the brain.Entities:
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Year: 1984 PMID: 6098346 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(84)90320-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Brain Res ISSN: 0006-8993 Impact factor: 3.252