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Changes in Adrenergic and Cholinergic Receptors on Human Cerebral Vessels [PDF]

Pharmaceuticals
Background/Objectives: Sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) occurs due to a failure of clearance of amyloid-beta (Aβ) along the walls of capillaries and arteries.
Maureen Gatherer, Christopher Brown, Laura Chinezu, Doina Manu, Anna Williams, Abigail Pendower, Juliette Ainslie, Lauren Walker, Johannes Attems, Louise Kelly, Scott Counts, Roxana Carare   +11 more
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The dual-site agonist for human M2 muscarinic receptors Iper-8-naphtalimide induces mitochondrial dysfunction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae [PDF]

Microbial Cell
Glioblastoma is a malignant astrocytic tumor of the brain. A significantly decrease of glioblastoma cell proliferation and survival can be achieved by activating the M2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (a G protein-coupled receptor, or GPCR) with two ...
Angela Cirigliano, Antonia Amelina, Elena Passarini, Alessandra Ricelli, Nicole Balasco, Mattia Mori, Bruno Botta, Maria Egle De Stefano, Claudio Papotto, Claudia Guerriero, Ada Maria Tata, Teresa Rinaldi   +11 more
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Aberrant myocardial calcium cycling: pathogenic mechanisms and targeted therapeutics for heart failure [PDF]

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Cardiovascular diseases rank as the global primary cause of mortality. Heart failure (HF) represents a progressive cardiac syndrome triggered by structural or functional myocardial damage that compromises ventricular systolic output.
Chunxiao Zhao, Chunxiao Zhao, Chunxiao Zhao, Jiahao Liu, Juanjuan Xin, Qun Liu, Ying Zhang, Xiaochun Yu, Junhong Gao   +8 more
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Synergistic mechanisms of medullary cholinergic-serotonergic pathway interactions in regulating neuronal excitability and locomotor activities [PDF]

Communications Biology
Medullary serotonergic (5-HT) neurons play a pivotal role in locomotor initiation. While these neurons receive cholinergic innervation, the functional consequences and underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Using ePet-EYFP transgenic mice (P3–P6)
Yi Cheng, Yue Dai, Renkai Ge, Qiang Zhang   +3 more
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Muscarinic receptor regulation of chronic pain-induced atrial fibrillation

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Atrial fibrillation (AF), one of the most common arrhythmias, is associated with chronic emotional disorder. Chronic pain represents a psychological instability condition related to cardiovascular diseases, but the mechanistic linkage connecting chronic ...
Chao Gong, Yu Ding, Feng Liang, Shuang Wu, Xiruo Tang, Hongzhang Ding, Wenjing Huang, Xiaotong Yu, Likun Zhou, Jun Li, Shaowen Liu   +10 more
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Involvement of muscarinic receptors in psychomotor hyperactivity in dopamine-deficient mice

Molecular Brain, 2022
Dopamine-deficient (DD) mice exhibit psychomotor hyperactivity that might be related to a decrease in muscarinic signaling. In the present study, muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M2 (CHRM2) density decreased in the cortex in DD mice. This is significant
Masayo Fujita, Yukiko Ochiai, Yoko Hagino, Kazuto Kobayashi, Geoffrey Pavey, Brian Dean, Kazutaka Ikeda   +6 more
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Vibrational spectroscopy analysis of ligand efficacy in human M2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (M2R)

Communications Biology, 2021
Katayama et al. report a vibrational spectroscopic study using ATR–FTIR of the human M2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (M2R). Their work involves an extensive comparison of agonists, antagonists, and inverse agonists, in which they show that they C ...
Kota Katayama, Kohei Suzuki, Ryoji Suno, Ryoji Kise, Hirokazu Tsujimoto, So Iwata, Asuka Inoue, Takuya Kobayashi, Hideki Kandori   +8 more
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General anaesthesia-related complications of gut motility with a focus on cholinergic mechanisms, TRP channels and visceral pain

Frontiers in Physiology, 2023
General anesthesia produces multiple side effects. Notably, it temporarily impairs gastrointestinal motility following surgery and causes the so-called postoperative ileus (POI), a multifactorial and complex condition that develops secondary to ...
Alexander V. Zholos, Dariia O. Dryn, Mariia I. Melnyk, Mariia I. Melnyk   +3 more
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Carbachol Induces Ca2+-Dependent Contraction via Muscarinic M2 and M3 Receptors in Rat Intestinal Subepithelial Myofibroblasts

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2009
.: Intestinal myofibroblasts (IMFs) that exist adjacent to the basement membrane of intestines have contractility and contribute to physical barriers of the intestine.
Koichi Iwanaga, Takahisa Murata, Muneyoshi Okada, Masatoshi Hori, Hiroshi Ozaki   +4 more
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Histamine H1 Receptor Down-Regulation Mediated by M3 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subtype

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2004
Heterologous down-regulation of histamine H1 receptor (H1R) mediated by muscarinic acetylcholine receptor subtype was investigated using five kinds of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells stably co-expressing the human H1R and one of the five (M1 –M5 ...
Katsuhiro Miyoshi, Nozomi Kawakami, Yousuke Wakayama, Norimasa Izumi, Shuhei Horio, Hiroyuki Fukui   +5 more
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