Quantifying Receptor Properties: the Tissue Segment Binding Method - a Powerful Tool for the Pharmacome Analysis of Native Receptors

• Main Authors: Ikunobu Muramatsu (Author), Takashi Tanaka (Author), Fumiko Suzuki (Author), Zhang Li (Author), Yasuko Hiraizumi-Hiraoka (Author), Abu Syed Md Anisuzzaman (Author), Hatsumi Yamamoto (Author), Takahiro Horinouchi (Author), Shigeru Morishima (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The radioligand binding assay technique is an extremely powerful tool for studying receptors. It allows an analysis of the interactions of hormones, neurotransmitters, and related drugs with their receptors. Most of the binding assays have widely been applied to crude membrane fractions prepared fro...