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Peripheral muscarinic receptors mediate the anti-inflammatory effects of auricular acupuncture
Chinese Medicine, 2011 Background The cholinergic and opioid systems play important roles in modulating inflammation. This study tests whether auricular acupuncture (AA) produces anti-inflammatory effects via opioid and peripheral cholinergic receptors in a rat model.
Chung Wai, Zhang Hong, Zhang Shi
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Paying attention to smell: Cholinergic signaling in the olfactory bulb.
Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, 2014 The tractable, layered architecture of the olfactory bulb (OB), and its function as a relay between odor input and higher cortical processing, makes it an attractive model to study how sensory information is processed at a synaptic and circuit level. The
Rinaldo David D'Souza +1 more
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Lesions of cholinergic pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus neurons fail to affect cocaine or heroin self-administration or conditioned place preference in rats. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Cholinergic input to the ventral tegmental area (VTA) is known to contribute to reward. Although it is known that the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg) provides an important source of excitatory input to the dopamine system, the specific role of ...
Stephan Steidl, Huiling Wang, Roy A Wise
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Role of the thalamic parafascicular nucleus cholinergic system in the modulation of acute corneal nociception in rats [PDF]
Veterinary Research Forum, 2011 The present study investigated the effects of microinjections of acetylcholine (a cholinergic agonist), physostigmine (a cholinesterase inhibitor), atropine (an antagonist of muscarinic cholinergic receptors) and hexamethonium (an antagonist of nicotinic
Esmaeal Tamaddonfard +3 more
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2020 Background: Extracellular ATP is a powerful trigger of neuroinflammation by activating immune cells via P2X7 receptors. Acetylcholine and nicotinic agonists inhibit ATP-triggered proinflammatory cytokines via the so-called “cholinergic anti-inflammatory ...
Dilyara Nurkhametova +11 more
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Pharmaceuticals, 2023 Neuropathic pain affects about 7–8% of the population, and its management still poses challenges with unmet needs. Over the past decades, researchers have explored the cholinergic system (muscarinic and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: mAChR and nAChR)
Edouard Montigné, David Balayssac
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Cholinergic neurons in the dorsomedial hypothalamus regulate food intake
Molecular Metabolism, 2017 Objective: Central cholinergic neural circuits play a role in the regulation of feeding behavior. The dorsomedial hypothalamus (DMH) is considered the appetite-stimulating center and contains cholinergic neurons.
Jae Hoon Jeong +2 more
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Frontiers in Molecular NeuroscienceObjectiveAcetylcholine modulates the activity of the direct and indirect pathways within the striatum through interaction with muscarinic M4 and M1 receptors.
Anna Berezovskaia +10 more
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2017 The degeneration of cholinergic neurons of the nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM) in the basal forebrain (BF) is associated to the cognitive decline of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients. To date no resolutive therapies exist. Cell-based replacement therapy
Annamaria Morelli +18 more
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Acetylcholine regulation of GnRH neuronal activity: A circuit in the medial septum
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 In vertebrates, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)-secreting neurons control fertility by regulating gonadotrophs in the anterior pituitary. While it is known that acetylcholine (ACh) influences GnRH secretion, whether the effect is direct or indirect,
David M. Shostak +3 more
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