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Long-Term—But Not Short-Term—Plasticity at the Mossy Fiber–CA3 Pyramidal Cell Synapse in Hippocampus Is Altered in M1/M3 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Double Knockout Mice [PDF]

open access: goldCells, 2023
Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are well-known for their crucial involvement in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory, but the exact roles of the various receptor subtypes (M1–M5) are still not fully understood.
Fang Zheng   +2 more
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Rapid antidepressant actions of scopolamine: Role of medial prefrontal cortex and M1-subtype muscarinic acetylcholine receptors [PDF]

open access: greenNeurobiology of Disease, 2015
Clinical studies demonstrate that scopolamine, a non-selective muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAchR) antagonist, produces rapid therapeutic effects in depressed patients, and preclinical studies report that the actions of scopolamine require ...
Andrea Navarria   +10 more
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Identification of Antagonistic Action of Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids in Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor M1 by Computational Target Prediction Analysis [PDF]

open access: goldPharmaceuticals
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are one of the largest distributed classes of toxins in nature. They have a wide range of toxicity, such as hepatotoxicity, pulmonary toxicity, neuronal toxicity, and carcinogenesis.
Sara Abdalfattah   +7 more
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The novel orthosteric agonist M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor reveals anti-Alzheimer’s disease activity

open access: goldScientific Reports
Cholinergic treatments with an emphasis on M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) agonists as potential modulating agents are a new approach in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) therapy. In previous research, we designed and characterized novel thiazolidine-
Maryam Taheri   +2 more
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Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M1 mediates prostate cancer cell migration and invasion through hedgehog signaling

open access: goldAsian Journal of Andrology, 2018
The autonomic nervous system contributes to prostate cancer proliferation and metastasis. However, the exact molecular mechanism remains unclear. In this study, muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M1 (CHRM1) expression was measured via immunohistochemical ...
Qing-Qing Yin   +3 more
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Corrigendum: Striatal dopamine D2-muscarinic acetylcholine M1 receptor-receptor interaction in a model of movement disorders [PDF]

open access: goldFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
René A. J. Crans   +13 more
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Potentiation of the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor normalizes neuronal activation patterns and improves apnea severity in Mecp2+/− mice

open access: goldNeurobiology of Disease
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is caused by loss-of-function mutations in the methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MeCP2) gene. RTT patients experience a myriad of debilitating symptoms, which include respiratory phenotypes that are ...
Mackenzie Smith   +6 more
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Influence of mandukaparni targeting muscarinic acetylcholine receptor m1 in the management of Alzheimer's Disease: A network pharmacological approach

open access: yesJournal 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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Neuromodulation of Persistent Activity and Working Memory Circuitry in Primate Prefrontal Cortex by Muscarinic Receptors

open access: yesFrontiers in Neural Circuits, 2021
Neuromodulation by acetylcholine plays a vital role in shaping the physiology and functions of cerebral cortex. Cholinergic neuromodulation influences brain-state transitions, controls the gating of cortical sensory stimulus responses, and has been shown
Susheel Vijayraghavan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effects of kindling during pregnancy on long-term potentiation (LTP) induction and M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in male rat offspring

open access: yesResearch in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2023
Background and purpose: Neonates of pregnant women with epilepsy may compromise normal neurodevelopment and hippocampal morphology. Memory and learning disorders and a decrease in verbal IQ scores are seen in these children later in life. In the previous
Ali Pourmotabbed   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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