- Otto Loewi showed the importance of chemical synapses by taking synaptic fluid from a frog vagua nerve and putting it into a recipient heart; the fluid caused the heart rate to slow.
The Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
- It has 2 alpha, 1 beta and 1 gamma subunit.
- A twisting response upon acetylcholine binding opens the channel.
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