Snake venoms: toolbox of the neurobiologist.

Neurotoxins isolated from snake venom exhibit very specific actions on nervous structures. Their use in neurobiological research contributed to a better understanding of neuromuscular transmission and led to the isolation of a receptor, the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.

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