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Muscarinic receptor signaling in the pathophysiology of asthma and COPD

Respiratory Research, 2006
Anticholinergics are widely used for the treatment of COPD, and to a lesser extent for asthma. Primarily used as bronchodilators, they reverse the action of vagally derived acetylcholine on airway smooth muscle contraction.
Zaagsma Johan, Gosens Reinoud, Meurs Herman, Halayko Andrew J   +3 more
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Auditory mismatch responses are differentially sensitive to changes in muscarinic acetylcholine versus dopamine receptor function

eLife, 2022
The auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) has been proposed as a biomarker of NMDA receptor (NMDAR) dysfunction in schizophrenia. Such dysfunction may be caused by aberrant interactions of different neuromodulators with NMDARs, which could explain clinical ...
Lilian Aline Weber, Sara Tomiello, Dario Schöbi, Katharina V Wellstein, Daniel Mueller, Sandra Iglesias, Klaas Enno Stephan   +6 more
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Pharmacological Characterization of Itch-Associated Response Induced by Repeated Application of Oxazolone in Mice

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2010
We investigated pharmacological characteristics of the itch-associated response to chronic dermatitis induced by 4-ethoxymethylene-2-phenyl-2-oxazolin-5-one (oxazolone) repeated application in mice.
Yukihito Tsukumo, Daisuke Harada, Haruhiko Manabe   +2 more
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Identification, expression and functional characterization of M4L, a muscarinic acetylcholine M4 receptor splice variant. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Rodent genomic alignment sequences support a 2-exon model for muscarinic M4 receptor. Using this model a novel N-terminal extension was discovered in the human muscarinic acetylcholine M4 receptor. An open reading frame was discovered in the human, mouse
Douglas A Schober, Carrie H Croy, Cara L Ruble, Ran Tao, Christian C Felder   +4 more
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Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome Is Associated With Elevated G‐Protein Coupled Receptor Autoantibodies

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019
Background The etiology of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is yet to be established. The disorder is often misdiagnosed as chronic anxiety or a panic disorder because the autonomic failure in these patients is not severe.
William T. Gunning, Heather Kvale, Paula M. Kramer, Beverly L. Karabin, Blair P. Grubb   +4 more
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Beneficial effects of anisodamine in shock involved nicotinic anti-inflammatory pathway

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2011
Anisodamine, an antagonist of muscarinic receptor, has been used therapeutically to improve blood flow in circulatory disorders such as septic shock in China since 1965.
Ting eZhao, Dong-Jie eLi, Chong eLiu, Ding-Feng eSu, Fu-Ming eShen   +4 more
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Influence of mandukaparni targeting muscarinic acetylcholine receptor m1 in the management of Alzheimer's Disease: A network pharmacological approach

Journal of Ayurveda, 2023
Introduction: Mandukaparni, being one of the medhya rasayanas, has shown remarkable therapeutic effects in the management of psychological disorders. Network pharmacology is the latest scientific collaboration where new drug actions can be established ...
T Adarsh, Giridhar Vedantam
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Basic and Clinical Aspects of Non-neuronal Acetylcholine: Expression of Non-neuronal Acetylcholine in Lung Cancer Provides a New Target for Cancer

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2008
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide and new treatment strategies are clearly needed. The recent discovery that lung and other cancers synthesize and secrete acetylcholine (ACh) which acts as an autocrine growth factor suggests that
Therapy Pingfang Song, Eliot R. Spindel
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Escherichia coli -induced inflammation changes the expression of acetylcholine receptors (M2R, M3R, and α-7 nAChR) in the pig uterus

Journal of Veterinary Research, 2020
The influence of inflammation on the patterns of muscarinic 2 and 3 receptor subtypes (M2R and M3R), and α-7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α-7 nAChR) expression in the porcine uterus was investigated.
Jana Barbara, Całka Jarosław, Palus Katarzyna, Sikora Małgorzata   +3 more
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Anti-inflammation of spirocyclopiperazinium salt compound LXM-10 targeting α7 nAChR and M4 mAChR and inhibiting JAK2/STAT3 pathway in rats. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The present study aims to investigate the therapeutic effects of LXM-10 by intragastric administration in both acute and chronic inflammatory models, and to explore the underlying molecular mechanisms.
Weiwei Zhang, Qi Sun, Xiaoli Gao, Yimin Jiang, Runtao Li, Jia Ye   +5 more
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