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10916
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841

Overview

Neil S. Millar is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. This diverse expertise reflects a broad academic scope involving both the natural sciences and social sciences.

The scientist has contributed notably to several subfields such as Molecular Biology, History, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, and Clinical Psychology. Their work engages with a variety of main topics, including:

  • American Sports and Literature
  • Sports, Gender, and Society
  • Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques

Neil S. Millar has co-authored papers alongside colleagues such as Gregory J. Hannon, Dario Bressan, N. A. Walton, Claire M. Mulvey, and Fatime Qosaj.

The scientist has published in journals and venues such as:

  • IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE
  • Nature
  • Pharmacological Research
  • ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • ACS Bio & Med Chem Au

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Neil S. Millar include:

  • Clonal fitness inferred from time-series modelling of single-cell cancer genomes, 2021, Nature
  • Potentiation and allosteric agonist activation of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: binding sites and hypotheses, 2023, Pharmacological Research
  • Stoichiometry-Selective Antagonism of α4β2 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors by Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics, 2022, ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • Synthesis and Antagonist Activity of Methyllycaconitine Analogues on Human α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors, 2023, ACS Bio & Med Chem Au
  • Imaging and Molecular Annotation of Xenographs and Tumours (IMAXT): High throughput data and analysis infrastructure, 2023, Biological Imaging

In addition to journal articles, Neil S. Millar has published books with Edinburgh University Press, specifically titles on Early Golf released in 2022.

Best Publications

  • A neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit (α7) is developmentally regulated and forms a homo-oligomeric channel blocked by α-BTX

    Sabine Couturier;Daniel Bertrand;Jean-Marc Matter;Maria-Clemencia Hernandez

  • The increased trafficking of the calcium channel subunit alpha2delta-1 to presynaptic terminals in neuropathic pain is inhibited by the alpha2delta ligand pregabalin.

    Claudia S Bauer;Manuela Nieto-Rostro;Wahida Rahman;Alexandra Tran-Van-Minh

  • Amplification of a cytochrome P450 gene is associated with resistance to neonicotinoid insecticides in the aphid Myzus persicae.

    Alin M. Puinean;Stephen P. Foster;Linda Oliphant;Ian Denholm

  • Diversity of vertebrate nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

    Neil S. Millar;Cecilia Gotti

  • A nicotinic acetylcholine receptor mutation conferring target-site resistance to imidacloprid in Nilaparvata lugens (brown planthopper)

    Zewen Liu;Martin S. Williamson;Stuart J. Lansdell;Ian Denholm

  • RNA editing in Newcastle disease virus.

    M Steward;I B Vipond;N S Millar;P T Emmerson

  • DAMB, a Novel Dopamine Receptor Expressed Specifically in Drosophila Mushroom Bodies

    Kyung An Han;Neil S. Millar;Michael S. Grotewiel;Ronald L. Davis

  • A novel octopamine receptor with preferential expression in Drosophila mushroom bodies.

    Kyung An Han;Neil S. Millar;Ronald L. Davis

  • Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: targets for commercially important insecticides

    Neil S. Millar;Ian Denholm

  • Rat nicotinic ACh receptor α7 and β2 subunits co‐assemble to form functional heteromeric nicotinic receptor channels

    Serguei S. Khiroug;Patricia C. Harkness;Patricia W. Lamb;Sterling N. Sudweeks

  • Assembly and subunit diversity of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

    N.S. Millar

  • Agonist activation of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors via an allosteric transmembrane site

    Gareth T. Young;Ruud Zwart;Alison S. Walker;Emanuele Sher

  • Ion-channel assembly

    William N. Green;Neil S. Millar

  • RIC-3 enhances functional expression of multiple nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes in mammalian cells.

    Stuart J. Lansdell;Veronica J. Gee;Patricia C. Harkness;Anne I. Doward

  • A recombinant fowlpox virus expressing the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase gene of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) protects chickens against challenge NDV

    M.E.G. Boursnell;P.F. Green;A.C.R. Samson;J.I.A. Campbell

  • Assembly and trafficking of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (Review).

    Neil S. Millar;Patricia C. Harkness

  • The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2013/14: overview

    Stephen P.H. Alexander;Helen E. Benson;Elena Faccenda;Adam J. Pawson

  • Host Cell‐Specific Folding and Assembly of the Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor α7 Subunit

    Sandra T. Cooper;Neil S. Millar

  • The influence of nicotinic receptor subunit composition upon agonist, α–bungarotoxin and insecticide (imidacloprid) binding affinity

    Stuart J. Lansdell;Neil S. Millar

  • RIC-3: a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor chaperone

    N S Millar

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin S. Williamson
Martin S. Williamson Rothamsted Research
Ian Denholm
Ian Denholm University of Hertfordshire
David B. Sattelle
David B. Sattelle University College London
Ana Belén Elgoyhen
Ana Belén Elgoyhen University of Buenos Aires
Susan Wonnacott
Susan Wonnacott University of Bath
Ronald L. Davis
Ronald L. Davis Scripps Research Institute
Rafael Luján
Rafael Luján University of Castilla-La Mancha
Paul Albert Fuchs
Paul Albert Fuchs Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Annette C. Dolphin
Annette C. Dolphin University College London
Linda M. Field
Linda M. Field Rothamsted Research

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