Nicotinic receptors concentrated in the subsynaptic membrane do not contribute significantly to synaptic currents at an embryonic synapse in the chicken ciliary ganglion.

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Published in J Neurosci on March 25, 2009

Authors

Peter B Sargent1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cell and Tissue Biology and the Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0640, USA. peter.sargent@ucsf.edu

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