Refine
Has Fulltext
- yes (131)
Is part of the Bibliography
- yes (131)
Year of publication
- 2020 (131) (remove)
Document Type
- Journal article (99)
- Doctoral Thesis (32)
Keywords
- biodiversity (5)
- autophagy (4)
- Apis mellifera (3)
- Drosophila melanogaster (3)
- Staphylococcus aureus (3)
- cell death (3)
- colorectal cancer (3)
- diversity (3)
- evolution (3)
- foraging (3)
Author
- Müller, Jörg (12)
- Dandekar, Thomas (10)
- Thorn, Simon (9)
- Mueller, Martin J. (6)
- Rudel, Thomas (6)
- Sauer, Markus (6)
- Bässler, Claus (5)
- Leonhardt, Sara D. (5)
- Müller, Tobias (5)
- Chao, Anne (4)
- Dittrich, Marcus (4)
- Götz, Ralph (4)
- Kozjak-Pavlovic, Vera (4)
- Krauss, Jochen (4)
- Krischke, Markus (4)
- Seibold, Sebastian (4)
- Spaethe, Johannes (4)
- Vikuk, Veronika (4)
- Gossner, Martin M. (3)
- Kunz, Meik (3)
- Kunz, Tobias C. (3)
- Peters, Marcell K. (3)
- Rössler, Wolfgang (3)
- Schartl, Manfred (3)
- Scheiner, Ricarda (3)
- Schlegel, Jan (3)
- Shityakov, Sergey (3)
- Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf (3)
- Vogel, Sebastian (3)
- Wiegering, Armin (3)
- Ade, Carsten P. (2)
- Baerenfaller, Katja (2)
- Beer, Katharina (2)
- Bencurova, Elena (2)
- Biedermann, Peter H. W. (2)
- Castro, Jorge (2)
- Chen, Yan-Han (2)
- Classen, Alice (2)
- Cosarinsky, Marcela I. (2)
- Doerfler, Inken (2)
- Doll, Julia (2)
- Eardley, Connal D. (2)
- Fathy, Moustafa (2)
- Fekete, Agnes (2)
- Fink, Julian (2)
- Fischer, Markus (2)
- Förster, Carola (2)
- Georgiev, Kostadin B. (2)
- Germer, Christoph-Thomas (2)
- Grund-Mueller, Nils (2)
- Haaf, Thomas (2)
- Heibl, Christoph (2)
- Helfrich-Förster, Charlotte (2)
- Heurich, Marco (2)
- Howari, Fares M. (2)
- Hutto, Richard L. (2)
- Iqbal, Jibran (2)
- Keller, Alexander (2)
- Khan, Imran (2)
- Kim, Hyung-Goo (2)
- Kneitz, Susanne (2)
- Kong, Il-Keun (2)
- Leverkus, Alexandro B (2)
- Liang, Chunguang (2)
- Lindenmayer, David B (2)
- Marquardt, André (2)
- Matthes, Niels (2)
- Naseem, Muhammad (2)
- Othman, Eman M. (2)
- Prokopov, Dmitry Yu. (2)
- Raman, Sudha Janaki (2)
- Roces, Flavio (2)
- Rost, Josep (2)
- Roth, Nicolas (2)
- Ruedenauer, Fabian A. (2)
- Römer, Daniela (2)
- Rüschendorf, Franz (2)
- Schilling, Bastian (2)
- Schmidt, Stefan (2)
- Schmitz, Werner (2)
- Schnapp, Linda (2)
- Schulze, Almut (2)
- Seibel, Jürgen (2)
- Seitz, Nicola (2)
- Solger, Franziska (2)
- Srivastava, Mugdha (2)
- Steffan‐Dewenter, Ingolf (2)
- Stelzner, Kathrin (2)
- Stigloher, Christian (2)
- Terpitz, Ulrich (2)
- Trifonov, Vladimir A. (2)
- Vona, Barbara (2)
- Weisser, Wolfgang W. (2)
- Weiß, Ingmar (2)
- Wiegering, A. (2)
- Young, Carolyn A. (2)
- Abt, Alexander (1)
- Ade, Casten P. (1)
- Adli, Abolfazl (1)
- Ahmad, Naseer (1)
- AlRemeithi, Fatima A. (1)
- Alam Khan, Sher (1)
- Alblooshi, Afnan Ali M. A. (1)
- Alonso-Rodríguez, Aura M. (1)
- Amatobi, Kelechi M. (1)
- Amini, Emad (1)
- Anger, Friedrich (1)
- Ankenbrand, Markus (1)
- Antrobus, Robin (1)
- Antão, Laura H. (1)
- Appenzeller, Silke (1)
- Arandjelovic, Mimi (1)
- Arnhold, Stefan (1)
- Arriens, Sandra (1)
- Asís, Josep Daniel (1)
- Auer, Daniela (1)
- Avota, Elita (1)
- Babanezhad, Manoochehr (1)
- Bae, Soyeon (1)
- Baldrian, Petr (1)
- Balima, Larba Hubert (1)
- Balke, Michael (1)
- Balkenhol, Johannes (1)
- Ballesteros, Yolanda (1)
- Baluapuri, Apoorva (1)
- Bargou, Ralf (1)
- Barucca, Marco (1)
- Bates, Amanda E. (1)
- Bauer, Joachim (1)
- Baum, P. (1)
- Baur, Florentin (1)
- Baños-Picón, Laura (1)
- Becker, Mira Caroline (1)
- Beer, Katharina B. (1)
- Beliu, Gerti (1)
- Benbow, M. Eric (1)
- Berg, Stefan (1)
- Berger, Susanne (1)
- Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus (1)
- Bielow, Chris (1)
- Biltueva, Larisa S. (1)
- Bischler, Thorsten (1)
- Biscotti, Maria Assunta (1)
- Bjorkman, Anne D. (1)
- Blowes, Shane A. (1)
- Blum, Galia (1)
- Boch, Steffen (1)
- Boesch, Christophe (1)
- Boetzl, Fabian A. (1)
- Boff, Samuel (1)
- Boschert, Verena (1)
- Bowler, Diana E. (1)
- Boyny, Aziza (1)
- Brands, Roman C. (1)
- Braun, Attila (1)
- Braun, Fabian (1)
- Brehm, Gunnar (1)
- Briggs, Emma (1)
- Bruelheide, Helge (1)
- Burek, Malgorzata (1)
- Butter, Falk (1)
- Böhning‐Gaese, Katrin (1)
- Cabral, Juliano Sarmento (1)
- Cadotte, Marc (1)
- Cadotte, Marc W. (1)
- Calzado, Marco A. (1)
- Campbell, John L. (1)
- Canapa, Adriana (1)
- Carducci, Federica (1)
- Carlson, Caitlin M. (1)
- Castillo Cajas, Ruth (1)
- Cavaletto, Giacomo (1)
- Chen, Yan‐Han (1)
- Choi, Chang-Yong (1)
- Choi, Chang‐Yong (1)
- Clardy, Jon (1)
- Cloete, Ruben (1)
- Cobb, Tyler P. (1)
- Contar Adolfi, Mateus (1)
- Coulibaly, Drissa (1)
- Courbaud, Benoit (1)
- Crespo, Jose J. (1)
- Currie, Cameron R. (1)
- Dandekar, Gudrun (1)
- Das, Sudip (1)
- De Lira, Maria Nathalia (1)
- Denk, Sarah (1)
- Di Pietro, Antonio (1)
- Diefenbacher, Markus E. (1)
- Dieguez, Paula (1)
- Diers, J. (1)
- Diers, Johannes (1)
- Dittrich, Marcus T. (1)
- Djakovic, Lara (1)
- Djinovic-Carugo, Kristina (1)
- Djuzenova, Cholpon S. (1)
- Doczkal, Dieter (1)
- Donato, Daniel C. (1)
- Dornelas, Maria (1)
- Durska, Ewa (1)
- Dölken, Lars (1)
- Döring, Kristina (1)
- Eidel, Matthias T. A. M. (1)
- Eilers, Martin (1)
- Eilers, Ursula (1)
- Eilts, Janna (1)
- Einsele, Hermann (1)
- Elahi, Robin (1)
- Elashry, Mohamed I. (1)
- Erhard, Florian (1)
- Ernestus, R.-I. (1)
- Faccoli, Massimo (1)
- Farashiani, Mohammad Ebrahim (1)
- Farré-Armengol, Gerard (1)
- Fazeli, Gholamreza (1)
- Feldhaar, Heike (1)
- Ferber, Elena (1)
- Fiedler, Jan (1)
- Fiedler, Konrad (1)
- Fischer, Annette B. (1)
- Fischer, Thomas (1)
- Fleischmann, Pauline N. (1)
- Flemming, S. (1)
- Flentje, Michael (1)
- Floren, Andreas (1)
- Fofanov, Mikhail V. (1)
- Fontaine, Joseph B. (1)
- Fontaine, Jospeh B. (1)
- Fornwalt, Paula J. (1)
- Frank, Torsten (1)
- Fraunholz, Martin (1)
- Fraunholz, Martin J. (1)
- Friedel, Anna (1)
- Friedel, Caroline C. (1)
- Friedmann-Angeli, José Pedro (1)
- Fuchs, Benjamin (1)
- Fuchs, Maximilian (1)
- Fuß, Antje (1)
- Gamon, Florian (1)
- Gao, Shangbang (1)
- Gao, Shiqiang (1)
- Gavin, Anne-Claude (1)
- Gehin, Charlotte (1)
- Geisenhof, Michaela (1)
- Geissinger, Eva (1)
- Gentschev, Ivaylo (1)
- Georgiev, Konstadin B. (1)
- Gerdol, Marco (1)
- Gerhards, Julian (1)
- Germer, C.-T. (1)
- Germer, C.‐T. (1)
- Glaab, Sabine (1)
- Glutsch, Valerie (1)
- Goding, Colin R. (1)
- Goetze, Dethardt (1)
- Graewert, Melissa (1)
- Graves, Tyler D. (1)
- Grishkovskaya, Irina (1)
- Grob, Robin (1)
- Groh, Claudia (1)
- Groma, Michaela (1)
- Grubbs, Kirk J. (1)
- Grässer, Friedrich (1)
- Grübel, Kornelia (1)
- Gupta, Shishir K. (1)
- Gustafsson, Lena (1)
- Göbel, Margarete (1)
- Güntzel, Paul (1)
- Habenstein, Jens (1)
- Hagen, Franziska (1)
- Hagge, Jonas (1)
- Hankir, M. (1)
- Hankir, Mohammed (1)
- Hansen, Jessica (1)
- Harbottle, Richard P. (1)
- Hardulak, Laura A. (1)
- Hartlieb, Heiko (1)
- Hartmann, Oliver (1)
- Hartmann, Stefan (1)
- Hasanzadeh, Atefeh (1)
- Haszprunar, Gerhard (1)
- Hatzichristodoulou, Georgios (1)
- Haubitz, Imme (1)
- Hausmann, Axel (1)
- Heard, Tim A. (1)
- Hebert, Paul D. N. (1)
- Heidrich, Lea (1)
- Helfrich‑Förster, Charlotte (1)
- Hemp, Andreas (1)
- Hendrich, Lars (1)
- Hennig, Thomas (1)
- Henrique, Jessica Amaral (1)
- Herbert, Paul D. N. (1)
- Hernández Hernández, Raquel María (1)
- Hesselbach, Hannah (1)
- Heydarian, Motaharehsadat (1)
- Hines, Jes (1)
- Hofrichter, Michaela A. H. (1)
- Hofrichter, Michaela AH (1)
- Hofrichter, Michaela Angelika Hedwig (1)
- Holzgrabe, Ulrike (1)
- Horn [née Bunz], Melanie (1)
- Horn, Melanie (1)
- Horst, Sarah A. (1)
- Hovestadt, Thomas (1)
- Huettel, Bruno (1)
- Hufnagel, Anita (1)
- Hörner, Eva-Maria (1)
- Hügelschäffer, Sophie D. (1)
- Hünniger, Kerstin (1)
- Ikomey, George Mondinde (1)
- Interesova, Elena A. (1)
- Isaacs, Darren (1)
- Isbell, Forest (1)
- Jacobs, Graeme Brendon (1)
- Jahed, Razieh Rafiei (1)
- Janzen, Christian J. (1)
- Jeromin, Julian (1)
- Jessen, Christina (1)
- Jones, Holly P. (1)
- Jorge, Castro (1)
- Jowanowitsch, Kim K. (1)
- Jung, Kirsten (1)
- Junker, Robert R. (1)
- Just, Annette (1)
- Jürges, Christopher S. (1)
- Kablau, Arne (1)
- Kallnik, Katharina (1)
- Kalogirou, Charis (1)
- Kaltdorf, Kristin V. (1)
- Kaltdorf, Martin (1)
- Kaltdorf, Martin Ernst (1)
- Kaluza, Benjamin F. (1)
- Kann, Simone (1)
- Kastner, C. (1)
- Kastner, Caroline (1)
- Kavousi, Mohammad Reza (1)
- Kempa, Stefan (1)
- Kempe, Christoph (1)
- Keppler, Sarah (1)
- Kessner-Beierlein, Daniela (1)
- Khan, Ajmal (1)
- Khan, Saadullah (1)
- Klassen, Jonathan L. (1)
- Klein, Alexandra-Maria (1)
- Klenk, Nicola (1)
- Klepsch, Maximilian (1)
- Klepsch, Maximilian Andreas (1)
- Kleuser, Burkhard (1)
- Klymiuk, Michele C. (1)
- Knaup, Sabine (1)
- Kneitz, Burkhard (1)
- Koch, Rebecca-Diana (1)
- Kodandaraman, Geema (1)
- Koivula, Matti (1)
- Kolb, Susanne (1)
- Kolb, Susanne M. (1)
- Kostan, Julius (1)
- Krebs, Markus (1)
- Kreß, Julia K. C. (1)
- Krug, Sebastian (1)
- Kuhl, Heiner (1)
- Kurz, Andreas (1)
- Kurzai, Oliver (1)
- König, Julia (1)
- Kübler, Hubert (1)
- Kühl, Hjalmar (1)
- Kühlewein, Laura (1)
- Künzig, Florian W. H. (1)
- L'hernault, Anne (1)
- Labonne, Jonathan D. J. (1)
- Lakovic, Milica (1)
- Landthaler, Markus (1)
- Lapuente, Juan (1)
- Larrieu, Laurent (1)
- Layman, Lawrence C. (1)
- Leal, Andrea Zurita (1)
- Lee, Eun-Jae (1)
- Lee, Eun‐Jae (1)
- Lehmann, Julian (1)
- Lehner, Paul J. (1)
- Lemgruber, Leondro (1)
- Leonard, Thomas A. (1)
- Leonhardt, Sara (1)
- Leverkus, Alexandro B. (1)
- Levick, Shaun R. (1)
- Lichthardt, S. (1)
- Lichthardt, Sven (1)
- Liedtke, Daniel (1)
- Lihoreau, Mathieu (1)
- Linde, Jörg (1)
- Lindenmayer, David (1)
- Linnebacher, Michael (1)
- Linsenmair, K. Eduard (1)
- Linsenmair, Karl Eduard (1)
- Linz, Christian (1)
- Loeffler, Juergen (1)
- Loperena, Aristides (1)
- Lu, Yunzhi (1)
- Luko, Katarina (1)
- Löb, S. (1)
- Löb, Stefan (1)
- Löffler, Claudia (1)
- Macdonald, Ellen (1)
- Magdon, Paul (1)
- Magnani, Gianluca (1)
- Magurran, Anne E. (1)
- Maier, Elke (1)
- Mammadova-Bach, Elmina (1)
- Maric, Hans M. (1)
- Marini, Lorenzo (1)
- Marischen, Lothar (1)
- Markert, Sebastian M. (1)
- Mastrobuoni, Guido (1)
- Matheson, Nicholas J. (1)
- Matschos, Stephanie (1)
- Matthes, H. (1)
- Matthes, N. (1)
- Mayr, Antonia V. (1)
- McCulloch, Richard (1)
- McDonald, Bradon R. (1)
- Medina, Eva (1)
- Meierjohann, Svenja (1)
- Meinecke, Anna (1)
- Memmel, Simon (1)
- Menegatti, Jennifer (1)
- Mergner, Ulrich (1)
- Meybohm, P. (1)
- Michel, Konstanze (1)
- Michl, Patrick (1)
- Michler, Thomas (1)
- Mikasi, Sello Given (1)
- Mikusinski, Grzegorz (1)
- Morinière, Jérôme (1)
- Morriswood, Brooke (1)
- Morton, Charles Oliver (1)
- Mosteo, Laura (1)
- Muhammad, Noor (1)
- Mulcahy, Ben (1)
- Myers‐Smith, Isla H. (1)
- Müller-Reichert, Thomas (1)
- Müller-Richter, Urs D. A. (1)
- Münch, Christian (1)
- Münch, Nadine (1)
- Nanda, Indrajit (1)
- Narakusumo, Raden Pramesa (1)
- Navarro, Laetitia M. (1)
- Nawaz, Hamed (1)
- Niamir, Aidin (1)
- Niedermüller, Korbinian (1)
- Nieswandt, Bernhard (1)
- Nietzer, Sarah L. (1)
- Noack, Lisa (1)
- Noss, Reed F (1)
- Obasa, Adetayo Emmanuel (1)
- Obrist, Martin K. (1)
- Oelschlaegel, Diana (1)
- Okabe, Motonori (1)
- Olivares-Baerwald, Silvana (1)
- Orian, Amir (1)
- Osman, Mohamed (1)
- Osmanoglu, Oezge (1)
- Osmanoğlu, Özge (1)
- Pallavicini, Alberto (1)
- Panzer, Sabine (1)
- Paprotka, Kerstin (1)
- Peggie, Djunijanti (1)
- Perlík, Michal (1)
- Peters, Ralph S. (1)
- Petrov, Ivan (1)
- Pfann, Christina (1)
- Pfister, Pauline (1)
- Pich, Andreas (1)
- Polidori, Carlo (1)
- Porembski, Stefan (1)
- Prieto‐Garcia, Cristian (1)
- Prusty, Bhupesh (1)
- Puchinger, Martin (1)
- Rabl, Dominik (1)
- Rad, Aboulfazl (1)
- Raizer, Josué (1)
- Ranius, Thomas (1)
- Rassati, Davide (1)
- Raubenheimer, David (1)
- Redlich, Sarah (1)
- Reis, Helena (1)
- Reissland, Michaela (1)
- Remmele, Christian W. (1)
- Renner, Marion E. (1)
- Renner, Swen C. (1)
- Requier, Fabrice (1)
- Rey Benayas, José María (1)
- Rieger, Dirk (1)
- Romanenko, Svetlana A. (1)
- Rosenfeldt, Mathias (1)
- Rost, Isabell (1)
- Roth, Sabine (1)
- Rueb, Selina (1)
- Rutkowski, Andrzej J. (1)
- Rutschmann, Benjamin (1)
- Röder, Juliane (1)
- Röder, Tabea (1)
- Rösing, Nils (1)
- Saad Eldien, Heba M. (1)
- Saal, Fabian (1)
- Sagheb-Talebi, Khosro (1)
- Sajko, Sara (1)
- Salpeter, Seth (1)
- Salvador, Ellaine (1)
- Sarukhanyan, Edita (1)
- Sauer, Miriam (1)
- Schall, Peter (1)
- Schilcher, Felix (1)
- Schlegel, Nicolas (1)
- Schmidl, Jürgen (1)
- Schmidt, Stefanie (1)
- Schmitt, Anna-Lena (1)
- Schmitt, Thomas (1)
- Schneider, Felicitas Maria Hannelore (1)
- Schneider-Schaulies, Sibylle (1)
- Schuele, Maren (1)
- Schulze, Ernst-Detlef (1)
- Schumacher, Fabian (1)
- Schwarz, Roland F. (1)
- Schwebs, Marie (1)
- Schäbler, Stefan (1)
- Schäfer, Deborah (1)
- Schäfer, Hanno (1)
- Schülein‐Völk, Christina (1)
- Seeger, Johannes (1)
- Seher, Axel (1)
- Seibold, Marcel (1)
- Sendtner, Michael (1)
- Serebryanyk, Alla (1)
- Setiawan, Kim (1)
- Seyfried, F. (1)
- Sieger, Charlotte Sophie (1)
- Sievertsen, Jürgen (1)
- Sisario, Dmitri (1)
- Skoruppa, Michael (1)
- Smith, Terry K. (1)
- Sokolakis, Ioannis (1)
- Solimando, Antonio Giovanni (1)
- Soukhoroukov, Vladimir (1)
- Spahn, Martin (1)
- Spindler, Marie-Christin (1)
- Sponga, Antonio (1)
- Ssymank, Axel (1)
- Steffan‑Dewenter, Ingolf (1)
- Stein, Katharina (1)
- Stenchly, Kathrin (1)
- Stiegler, Jonas (1)
- Stojanović, Stevan D. (1)
- Stopper, Helga (1)
- Stork, Nigel (1)
- Strauß, Sina (1)
- Sukhorukov, Vladimir L. (1)
- Supp, Sarah R. (1)
- Surup, Frank (1)
- Svergun, Dimitri I. (1)
- Szalay, Aladar A. (1)
- Thamm, Markus (1)
- Thelen, David (1)
- Theodorou, Panagiotis (1)
- Thum, Thomas (1)
- Tláskal, Vojtěch (1)
- Tormos, José (1)
- Trinkl, Moritz (1)
- Trinks, Nora (1)
- Tröger, Sarah (1)
- Trübestein, Linda (1)
- Tulke, Moritz (1)
- Turrà, David (1)
- Ubaidillah, Rosichon (1)
- Ulyshen, Mike (1)
- Urban, Lara (1)
- Urban, Manuela (1)
- Vellend, Mark (1)
- Venjakob, Christine (1)
- Vlachakis, Dimitrios (1)
- Vogel, U. (1)
- Voulgari-Kokota, Anna (1)
- Vyalkova, Anna (1)
- Wagener, Johannes (1)
- Wagner, J. (1)
- Wagner, Johanna (1)
- Waldock, Conor (1)
- Waldron, Kaysandra (1)
- Wallace, Helen (1)
- Waller, Frank (1)
- Walles, Heike (1)
- Walz, Susanne (1)
- Weber, Michael (1)
- Wegener, Christian (1)
- Wehman, Ann M. (1)
- Weisert, Nadine (1)
- Weiss Sadan, Tommy (1)
- Weiss, Esther (1)
- Wermelinger, Beat (1)
- Whisnant, Adam W. (1)
- Wilkes, Jonathan (1)
- Winkler, Ann-Cathrin (1)
- Winter, Marten (1)
- Wirtz, Roland (1)
- Wobser, Marion (1)
- Wolf, Elmar (1)
- Wunder, Christian (1)
- Wurdack, Mareike (1)
- Wurmb, T. (1)
- Wyler, Emanuel (1)
- Wäldchen, Sina (1)
- Wöllauer, Stephan (1)
- Xiao, Ke (1)
- Yang, Tao (1)
- Yoshida, Toshiko (1)
- Yu, Bin (1)
- Zaman, Assad Ali (1)
- Zhen, Mai (1)
- Zimmer, Ralf (1)
- Zimmermann, Heiko (1)
- Zimmermann, Henriette (1)
- Zmihorski, Michal (1)
- Zoder, Sebastian (1)
- de Araujo, Bruno Cancian (1)
- el Jundi, Basil (1)
- vanEngelsdorp, Dennis (1)
- von Hoermann, Christian (1)
- von Rintelen, Kristina (1)
- von Rintelen, Thomas (1)
- Żmihorski, Michal (1)
Institute
- Theodor-Boveri-Institut für Biowissenschaften (131) (remove)
Sonstige beteiligte Institutionen
- Core Unit Systemmedizin (1)
- Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (1)
- Lehrstuhl für Translationale Onkologie (1)
- Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm (1)
- Zentrum für Innere Medizin I, Städtisches Klinikum Brandenburg GmbH, Hochschulklinikum der MHB Theodor Fontane (1)
- eXcorLab GmbH (1)
EU-Project number / Contract (GA) number
- 311781 (1)
- 765937 (1)
- CoG 721016–HERPES (1)
Acetylcholine (ACh) mediates transmission at vertebrate neuromuscular junctions and many other synapses. The postsynaptic ACh receptors at neuromuscular junctions are of the nicotinic subtype (nAChRs). They are among the best studied receptor channels and often serve as models or receptor prototypes. Despite a wealth of information on muscle type nAChRs so far little is known about species specific functional differences. In this work, mouse and human adult muscle type nAChRs are investigated.
Cell attached recordings in the HEK293T heterologous expression system provided evidence that the ACh affinity of recombinant mouse and human adult muscle type nAChRs are different. To clarify this, I compared these receptors in outside-out patches employing a system for fast agonist application. Thus, the individual membrane patches with receptors can be exposed to various ligand concentrations. In response to 10 and 30 µM ACh normalized peak currents (î) were significantly larger and current rise-time (tr) shorter in human than in mouse receptors. Analyzing dose-response curves of î and tr and fitting them with a two-step equivalent binding-site kinetic mechanism revealed a two-fold higher ACh association rate constant in human compared to mouse receptors. Furthermore, human nAChRs were blocked faster in outside-out patches by superfusion of 300 nM α-Bungarotoxin (α-Bgtx) than mouse nAChRs. Finally, human nAChRs in outside-out patches showed higher affinity at 3 µM ACh than chimeric receptors consisting of mouse α- and human β-, γ- and ε-subunits. The higher affinity of human than mouse receptors for ACh and α-Bgtx is thus at least in part due to sequence difference in their α-subunits.