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nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

nicotinic acetylcholine receptor noun: a particular acetylcholine receptor which is also an ion channel.

Noun

nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (plural nicotinic acetylcholine receptors)

  1. A particular acetylcholine receptor which is also an ion channel.
    • 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., Deneris, Evan S., et al., “Primary structure and expression of β2: A novel subunit of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors”, in Neuron, volume 1, →PMID, page 45

Forms of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

pluralnicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Questions about nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

What does nicotinic acetylcholine receptor mean?
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor means a particular acetylcholine receptor which is also an ion channel.
What part of speech is nicotinic acetylcholine receptor?
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor is a noun.
What is the plural of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor?
The plural of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor is nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

Words near nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in the dictionary

  1. nicotinergic
  2. nicotines
  3. nicotini
  4. nicotinian
  5. nicotinic
  6. nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
  7. nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
  8. nicotinic acid
  9. nicotinis
  10. nicotinism
  11. nicotinist

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