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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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Cryo-EM reveals an extrahelical allosteric binding site at the M5 mAChR [PDF]

Nature Communications
The M5 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (M5 mAChR) represents a promising therapeutic target for neurological disorders. However, the high conservation of its orthosteric binding site poses significant challenges for drug development.
Wessel A. C. Burger, Jesse I. Mobbs, Bhavika Rana, Jinan Wang, Keya Joshi, Patrick R. Gentry, Mahmuda Yeasmin, Hariprasad Venugopal, Aaron M. Bender, Craig W. Lindsley, Yinglong Miao, Arthur Christopoulos, Celine Valant, David M. Thal   +13 more
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Acetylcholine Receptor Stimulation Activates Protein Kinase C Mediated Internalization of the Dopamine Transporter

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2021
The dopamine transporter (DAT) clears neurotransmitters from the extracellular space and serves as an important regulator of signal amplitude and duration at sites of dopamine release. Several different intracellular signaling pathways have been observed
Suzanne M. Underhill, Susan G. Amara
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Expression Profiles of Neuropeptides, Neurotransmitters, and Their Receptors in Human Keratocytes In Vitro and In Situ. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Keratocytes, the quiescent cells of the corneal stroma, play a crucial role in corneal wound healing. Neuropeptides and neurotransmitters are usually associated with neuronal signaling, but have recently been shown to be produced also by non-neuronal ...
Marta Słoniecka, Sandrine Le Roux, Peter Boman, Berit Byström, Qingjun Zhou, Patrik Danielson   +5 more
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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

Cells, 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, Jürgen Wess, Christian Alzheimer   +2 more
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Intestinal epithelial stem/progenitor cells are controlled by mucosal afferent nerves. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
BACKGROUND: The maintenance of the intestinal epithelium is of great importance for the survival of the organism. A possible nervous control of epithelial cell renewal was studied in rats and mice.
Ove Lundgren, Mats Jodal, Madeleine Jansson, Anders T Ryberg, Lennart Svensson   +4 more
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Fine Tuning Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Signaling Through Allostery and Bias

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021
The M1 and M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) are highly pursued drug targets for neurological diseases, in particular for Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia.
Emma T. van der Westhuizen, K. H. Christopher Choy, Celine Valant, Simon McKenzie-Nickson, Sophie J. Bradley, Andrew B. Tobin, Patrick M. Sexton, Arthur Christopoulos   +7 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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Bitopic binding mode of an M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor agonist associated with adverse clinical trial outcomes [PDF]

, 2018
The realisation of the therapeutic potential of targeting the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (M1 mAChR) for the treatment of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease has prompted the discovery of M1 mAChR ligands showing efficacy in alleviating ...
Bradley, Sophie J., Broad, Lisa M., Brooke, Simon M., Bundgaard, Christoffer, Christopoulos, Arthur, Crabtree, Michael D., Dwomoh, Louis, Felder, Christian C., Langmead, Christopher J., Mogg, Adrian J., Molloy, Colin, Sanger, Helen E., Sexton, Patrick M., Thompson, Karen J., Tobin, Andrew B.   +14 more
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Identification and Role of Muscarinic Receptor Subtypes Expressed in Rat Adrenal Medullary Cells

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2011
.: The muscarinic receptor is known to be involved in the acetylcholine (ACh)-induced secretion of catecholamines in the adrenal medullary (AM) cells of various mammals.
Keita Harada, Hidetada Matsuoka, Takeyoshi Sata, Akira Warashina, Masumi Inoue   +4 more
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