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Functional characterization of three G protein-coupled acetylcholine receptors in parasitic nematode Trichinella spiralis

International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance, 2023
The physiological significance of metabotropic acetylcholine receptors in parasitic nematodes remains largely unexplored. Here, three different Trichinella spiralis G protein-coupled acetylcholine receptors (TsGAR-1, -2, and -3) were identified in the ...
Cáinà Nìng, Aurélie Heckmann, Lourdes Mateos-Hernández, Grégory Karadjian, Ladislav Šimo   +4 more
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An Anterior Cingulate Cortex‐Anterior Insular Cortex Glutamatergic Circuit Gates Stress‐Induced Visceral Hypersensitivity and Anxiety via Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors Trafficking

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study identifies an anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) to anterior insular cortex (AIC) glutamatergic (Glu) circuit that gates stress induced visceral hypersensitivity and anxiety. Circuit activation induces both phenotypes, whereas inhibition relieves them.
Junwen Wang, Guangbing Duan, Huihui Sun, Zhiyu Dong, Qiwei Wang, Xiaowei Li, Ying Chen, Shuchang Xu, Ying Huang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cholinergic partition cells and lamina X neurons induce a muscarinic-dependent short-term potentiation of commissural glutamatergic inputs in lumbar motoneurons.

Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2011
Acetylcholine and the activation of muscarinic receptors influence the activity of neural networks generating locomotor behaviour in the mammalian spinal cord.
Sandrine S Bertrand, Jean-René eCazalets   +1 more
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Hypothalamic Control of Liver Health and Disease: From Circuits to Pathophysiology and Therapies

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This review delineates the hypothalamic circuits that control liver homeostasis via autonomic and neuroendocrine pathways. Dysregulation of this hypothalamus–liver axis drives disease progression across a spectrum including steatotic liver disease, liver inflammation and injury, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Qin Tang, Jiahui Li, Haiying Song, Ailin Zhang, Haifeng Zeng, Yining Xu, Li Mo, Jinhan He   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of Muscarinic Receptor Subtypes in Human and Rat Lower Urinary Tract by Tissue Segment Binding Assay

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2008
Muscarinic receptors in the human and rat lower urinary tract (urinary bladder detrusor muscle and mucosa, and prostate) were identified by intact tissue segment binding assays with two radioligands, and the effects of prolonged receptor activation in ...
Abu Syed Md Anisuzzaman, Shigeru Morishima, Fumiko Suzuki, Takashi Tanaka, Hatsumi Yoshiki, Zakia Sultana Sathi, Hironobu Akino, Osamu Yokoyama, Ikunobu Muramatsu   +8 more
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Human Foetal Neuroblasts Exhibit BK Channel‐Dependent Membrane Voltage Oscillations upon Depolarization

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Primary cultures of neuroblasts isolated from the nucleus basalis of Meynert of 12‐weeks‐old human foetuses were prepared. Whole‐cell patch‐clamp recordings were performed by injecting a depolarizing stimulus current (+500 pA; 500 ms), and the membrane voltage recorded; this stimulus current evoked periodic‐like oscillations in membrane voltage ...
Elisabetta Coppi, Federica Cherchi, Martina Venturini, Federico Tommasi, Sandro Gonzi, Chiara Capacci, Giulia Guarnieri, Pasquale Gallina, Annamaria Morelli, Anna Maria Pugliese   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

An update on the efficacy and safety of aclidinium bromide in patients with COPD

Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 2011
Aclidinium is a potent and selective muscarinic antagonist, which interacts rapidly with muscarinic receptors and shows subnanomolar affinity for the five human muscarinic receptors (M 1 –M 5 ); its association rate for the M 3 receptor is similar to ...
Khuder Alagha, Arnaud Bourdin, Céline Tummino, Pascal Chanez   +3 more
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Neurotransmitter‐Defined Degeneration Patterns in Sporadic and C9orf72‐Associated Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Predilection to GABAergic, Serotonergic, Opioid, Glutamatergic, Endocannabinoid, and Microglial Systems—Implications for Therapy Development

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has a markedly distinctive clinical and neuroradiological signature, with the preferential involvement of specific brain networks and the apparent sparing of others. The molecular underpinnings of the strikingly selective anatomical vulnerability have not been fully elucidated to date despite the potential ...
Marlene Tahedl, We Fong Siah, Jasmin Lope, Jennifer C. Hengeveld, Mark A. Doherty, Russell L. McLaughlin, Orla Hardiman, Ee Ling Tan, Alison Toomey, Jana Kleinerova, Peter Bede   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Distinct Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in Modulating the Function of Lymphatic Vessels under Physiological and Tumor-Draining Conditions

Cell Reports, 2019
Summary: Lymphatic vessels (LVs) are important in the regulation of tissue fluid homeostasis and the pathogenesis of tumor progression. We investigated the innervation of LVs and the response to agonists and antagonists of the autonomic nervous system in 
Samia B. Bachmann, Denise Gsponer, Javier A. Montoya-Zegarra, Martin Schneider, Felix Scholkmann, Carlotta Tacconi, Simon F. Noerrelykke, Steven T. Proulx, Michael Detmar   +8 more
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The role of muscarinic receptors in the beneficial effects of adenosine against myocardial reperfusion injury in rats. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Adenosine, a catabolite of ATP, displays a wide variety of effects in the heart including regulation of cardiac response to myocardial ischemia and reperfusion injury.
Lei Sun, Dong-Ling Li, Mei Zhao, Xi He, Xiao-Jiang Yu, Yi Miao, Hao Wang, Jun Ren, Wei-Jin Zang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source