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Muscarinic receptors become crystal clear

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Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors mediate many physiological responses of the nervous system. Structures of two of these receptors yield insight into how they bind drugs and their mechanism of action. See Letters p.547 & 552

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Figure 1: Differences between receptor subtypes.

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  1. Rebecca L. Kow and Neil M. Nathanson are in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-7750, USA.,

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Kow, R., Nathanson, N. Muscarinic receptors become crystal clear. Nature 482, 480–481 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/482480a

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