nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

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Noun

nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (plural nicotinic acetylcholine receptors)

1. (biochemistry) An acetylcholine receptor which is also an ion channel.
   • 1988 March 1, Deneris, Evan S., et al., “Primary structure and expression of β2: A novel subunit of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors”, in Neuron‎^[1], volume 1, →PMID, page 45:

     These results lead us to propose that the nervous system expresses diverse forms of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by combining β2 subunits with different agonist-binding α subunits.