Regular ArticleModulation of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor by Dioscorine in Clonal Rat Phaeochlomocytoma (PC12) Cells☆
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This work was supported by NIH Grant NS14143 and Grant-in-Aid for Developmental Scientific Research 07406003, by Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan 07556014, and by the University of Tsukuba Research Projects. The authors thank Drs. Edson X. Albuquerque and Edna F. R. Pereira of the University of Maryland School of Medicine for providing the PC12 cell line, Nayla Hasan for technical assistance, and Julia Irizarry, Yukiko Sato, and Tokiko Tamaoki for secretarial assistance.
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