Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in the Nervous System formatIsbn:Softcover 9783642741692 7 Importation and Local van Oystaeyen 7 Importation and Local Generation of Technology by the Third World: An Institutionalist Perspective The conference was mainly devoted to pathophysiological aspects of high blood pressure recent sophisticated techniques such as patch clamp and gene cloning have revealed that the nicotinic receptor in the nervous system is not a single molecule but (although there are some important exceptions) a large family of similar molecules have made it clear that the functional characteristics of neuronal nicotinic receptors are substantially different from those of muscle receptors