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Characterization of ibogaine analogs on the hα3β4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. [PDF]

, 2012
Nicotine addiction is a global health problem that affects nearly one-third of the population. Animal models have shown that the beta-4 subunit of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) expressed in the habenulointerpeduncular pathway plays a ...
Ross, Jordan
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Acetylcholine From Solitary Chemosensory Cell, Not Neuron, Regulates Basal Cell Fate Driving Eosinophilic Chronic Rhinosinusitis With Nasal Polyps

Allergy, EarlyView.
This study identifies that Ach levels are elevated in eCRSwNP and primarily released from SCCs rather than neurons. Ach induces epithelial remodeling in eCRSwNP by binding to M1R/M3R and activating YAP signaling in basal cells, driving basal cell hyperplasia and abnormal differentiation. Blocking M1R/M3R with TB inhibits eCRSwNP progression.
Bowen Zheng, Tao Lu, Ji Wang, Yalan Zhang, Panhui Xiong, Jieyu Zeng, Shuman Li, Yu Jiang, Yijun Liu, Longlan Shu, Yuan Chen, Yin Zhou, Yue Gu, Dayu Guan, Chenxi Li, Lei Zhao, Shujin Wang, Jie Liu, Xia Ke, Yang Shen, Yucheng Yang   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Natural Compounds Interacting with Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors: From Low-Molecular Weight Ones to Peptides and Proteins

Toxins, 2015
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) fulfill a variety of functions making identification and analysis of nAChR subtypes a challenging task. Traditional instruments for nAChR research are d-tubocurarine, snake venom protein α-bungarotoxin (α-Bgt ...
Denis Kudryavtsev, Irina Shelukhina, Catherine Vulfius, Tatyana Makarieva, Valentin Stonik, Maxim Zhmak, Igor Ivanov, Igor Kasheverov, Yuri Utkin, Victor Tsetlin   +9 more
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Differential Expression of Nicotine Acetylcholine Receptors Associates with Human Breast Cancer and Mediates Antitumor Activity of αO-Conotoxin GeXIVA

Marine Drugs, 2020
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are membrane receptors and play a major role in tumorigenesis and cancer progression. Here, we have investigated the differential expression of nAChR subunits in human breast cancer cell lines and breast ...
Zhihua Sun, Manqi Zhangsun, Shuai Dong, Yiqiao Liu, Jiang Qian, Dongting Zhangsun, Sulan Luo   +6 more
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Species composition of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) colonizing pig carcasses exposed to bifenthrin‐ and clothianidin‐containing products

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
High clothianidin concentrations prevented colonization, while bifenthrin showed a non‐significant trend of reduced fly abundance, indicating both insecticides may suppress blow fly activity on treated carcasses. Adult emergence rates were unaffected, with no statistically significant differences observed across insecticide treatments, suggesting ...
Teomie S. Rivera‐Miranda, Krystal R. Hans   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microgravity‐induced changes in skeletal muscle and possible countermeasures: What we can learn from bed rest and human space studies

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite exercise countermeasures to sustain health and performance in spaceflight, complete maintenance of muscle mass and functions in microgravity is still not possible for most astronauts. The principal cause of the limited effectiveness of existing exercise countermeasures is the difficulty in achieving full loading forces in space.
Alessandra Bosutti, Bergita Ganse, Nicola A. Maffiuletti, Rob C. I. Wüst, Gustav J. Strijkers, Andy Sanderson, Hans Degens   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural basis for allosteric agonism of human α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Cell Discovery
The α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR), a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel, plays important roles in cognition, neuroprotection, and anti-inflammation.
Sanling Liu, Yining Zheng, Haopeng Chen, Xin Li, Qipeng Yan, Wenjun Mu, Yaning Fu, Huan Chen, Hongwei Hou, Lei Liu, Changlin Tian   +10 more
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GABAB receptor‐mediated modulation of sensory neuron excitability: Roles of CaV2.2, G‐protein‐coupled inwardly rectifying potassium (GIRK) channels, and hyperpolarisation‐activated cyclic nucleotide‐gated (HCN) channels in human and mouse nociception

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Chronic visceral pain is a key symptom of irritable bowel syndrome. Modulation of voltage‐gated calcium and potassium channels by G protein‐coupled receptors plays a key role in dampening nociceptive transmission. Both baclofen and the analgesic peptide α‐conotoxin Vc1.1 activate GABAB receptors (GABABR), resulting in inhibition of CaV2.2 and ...
Mariana Brizuela, Anuja R. Bony, Sonia Garcia‐Caraballo, David J. Adams, Stuart M. Brierley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human‐derived cardiac‐neural microtissues reveal catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia is also a disease of the sympathetic neuron

The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend Schematic diagram illustrating the proposed pathway in which regulatory defects might occur in sympathetic neurons derived from hiPSC in catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). Specifically, enhanced calcium transients appeared to derive from three sources: enhanced membrane excitability (due to loss of ...
Ni Li, Chenchen Zhang, Mengying Xu, YoonYoung Choi, Davi Sidarta‐Oliveira, Ruirui Dong, Xinyu Hu, Enrique M. Toledo, Cesar A. Prada‐Medina, Finbar Argus, Kun Liu, Mingyu Li, Linna Zhou, Hagan Bayley, Corey Smith, Chris Denning, Ana I. Domingos, Guoliang Hao, Dan Li, David J. Paterson   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nicotine attenuates activation of tissue resident macrophages in the mouse stomach through the β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.

PLoS ONE, 2013
BackgroundThe cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway is an endogenous mechanism by which the autonomic nervous system attenuates macrophage activation via nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR).
Andrea Nemethova, Klaus Michel, Pedro J Gomez-Pinilla, Guy E Boeckxstaens, Michael Schemann   +4 more
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