title: Influence of differentiation on muscarinic receptors in N1E 115 neuroblastoma cells.
abstract: The effect of inducing morphological differentiation in N1E 115 mouse neuroblastoma cells on the number of muscarinic receptors and the ligand binding affinity was investigated using the lipophylic quinuclidinyl benzylate and the hydrophylic N-methylscopolamine as tritiated ligands. Induction of morphological differentiation was accompanied by a two- to three-fold increase of the number of receptors when assayed in a broken cell preparation; the ligand binding affinity was unaffected by differentiation. Using intact cells, this increase was not paralleled by a similar increase in binding sites accessible for N-methylscopolamine, which binds preferentially to extracellular sites.
authors.affiliation: Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, University of Ghent, Medical School, Belgium.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Buyse
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Lefebvre
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Fraeyman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000473:pathology; D051379:Mice; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000032:analysis; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000032:analysis / Q000473:pathology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D011976:Receptors, Muscarinic / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D011976:Receptors, Muscarinic