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    The Reconstituted Acetylcholine Receptor

    The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) is the postsynaptic membrane protein that transduces the binding of acetylcholine (ACh) into the transient opening of a cation-selective channel. This signal-transdu...

    Mauricio Montal, Robert Anholt, Pedro Labarca in Ion Channel Reconstitution (1986)

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    The Molecular Basis of Neurotransmission: Structure and Function of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

    Acetylcholine was identified as the first neurotransmitter as a result of elegant experiments by Otto Loewi in 1921 who demonstrated that the vagus nerve liberates a substance that has an inhibitory effect on ...

    Robert Anholt, Jon Lindstrom, Mauricio Montal in The Enzymes of Biological Membranes (1985)