Pharmacology
Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
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Get access- Transmembrane proteins
- Central aqueous channel
- Open rapidly after ligand binding
- Hence produce rapid signal transmission and generation of action potentials
- Examples
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: main receptor at the NMJ and in many autonomic ganglia
- GABAA
- 5HT3 receptors