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In vitro study of spontaneous motility and cholinergic responses in the human Hirschsprung's disease colon [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Pediatrics
BackgroundThe current standard treatment of Hirschsprung's disease (HD) involves complete resection of the aganglionic intestinal segment with routine rectal irrigation pre- and postoperatively.
Felix Schulze   +7 more
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Elucidating the Urothelial-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms Involved in the Mouse Bladder Contractility Alterations by Acute Methylglyoxal Exposure [PDF]

open access: yesBiomedicines
Background/Objectives: Methylglyoxal (MGO) and subsequent activation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs)–RAGE receptor signaling has been implicated in the complications of diabetes mellitus (DM), such as bladder dysfunction. Chronic treatment with
Akila Lara Oliveira   +7 more
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Mechanisms of carbachol oscillations

open access: yesBMC Neuroscience, 2007
Netoff Theoden I   +2 more
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Water Drinking Behavior Associated with Aversive Arousal in Rats: An Integrative Approach

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2022
Cholinergic muscarinic stimulation of vast areas of the limbic brain induced a well-documented polydipsia in laboratory rats. This excessive water-drinking behavior has not received any convincing biological and physiological interpretation for the last ...
Stefan M. Brudzynski
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KV7 Channel Expression and Function Within Rat Mesenteric Endothelial Cells

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2020
Background and Purpose: Arterial diameter is dictated by the contractile state of the vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), which is modulated by direct and indirect inputs from endothelial cells (ECs).
Samuel N. Baldwin   +4 more
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Resilient Hippocampal Gamma Rhythmogenesis and Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneuron Function Before and After Plaque Burden in 5xFAD Alzheimer’s Disease Model

open access: yesFrontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, 2022
Recent studies have implicated impaired Parvalbumin Fast-Spiking Interneuron (PVIN) function as a precipitating factor underlying abnormalities in network synchrony, oscillatory rhythms, and cognition associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
Connie A. Mackenzie-Gray Scott   +9 more
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Phytochemical Analysis, Antispasmodic, Myorelaxant, and Antioxidant Effect of Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin and Clemants Flower Hydroethanolic Extracts and Its Chloroform and Ethyl Acetate Fractions

open access: yesMolecules, 2021
Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin and Clemants is an annual or ephemeral perennial herb used traditionally in the Mediterranean region in folk medicine to treat various illnesses, including those related to the digestive system.
Fahd Kandsi   +9 more
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Muscarinic Receptors as Targets for Metronomic Therapy in Ovarian Cancer

open access: yesDüzce Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi, 2023
Aim: In this study, the effects of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) agonist carbachol on the proliferation of cisplatin-resistant (A2780cis) and cisplatin-free (SKOV-3) ovarian cancer cell line were for the first time investigated to further ...
Fatma Söylemez   +1 more
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Carbachol and Nicotine in Prefrontal Cortex Have Differential Effects on Sleep-Wake States

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2020
The role of the brainstem cholinergic system in the regulation of sleep-wake states has been studied extensively but relatively little is known about the role of cholinergic mechanisms in prefrontal cortex in the regulation of sleep-wake states.
Anjum Parkar   +11 more
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Intracellular stored calcium plays a minor role in Gq-coupled receptor-mediated contraction in rat airway smooth muscle

open access: yesLife Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine, 2018
The general notion of activation of Gq-protein coupled receptors involves the mobilisation of stored and extracellular calcium and leads to smooth muscle tissue contraction.
Kayatri Govindaraju   +3 more
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