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"Warming yang and invigorating qi" acupuncture alters acetylcholine receptor expression in the neuromuscular junction of rats with experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis

Neural Regeneration Research, 2016
Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disorder in which antibodies have been shown to form against the nicotinic acetylcholine nicotinic postsynaptic receptors located at the neuromuscular junction.
Hai-peng Huang, Hong Pan, Hong-feng Wang
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RNA sequencing data describing transcriptional changes in aorta of ApoE-/- mice after alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR) stimulation

Data in Brief, 2020
This manuscript is a companion paper to Ulleryd M.U. et al., “Stimulation of alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR) inhibits atherosclerosis via immunomodulatory effects on myeloid cells” Atherosclerosis, 2019 [1]. Data shown here include RNA
Marcus A. Ulleryd, Filip Mjörnstedt, Dimitra Panagaki, Li Jin Yang, Kajsa Engevall, Saray Gutierrez, Yixin Wang, Li-Ming Gan, Holger Nilsson, Erik Michaëlsson, Maria E. Johansson   +10 more
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New insight into the tick neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: from molecular to pharmacological studies

Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
ACh is known to be an excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system of several arthropod species. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are involved in rapid neurotransmission and are the target of compounds used as acaricides.
Khalid Boussaine, Philippine Chartier, Alison Cartereau, Daniel Auguin, Emiliane Taillebois, Steeve H. Thany   +5 more
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Muscarinic and Nicotinic Contribution to Contrast Sensitivity of Macaque Area V1 Neurons

Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2017
Acetylcholine is a neuromodulator that shapes information processing in different cortical and subcortical areas. Cell type and location specific cholinergic receptor distributions suggest that acetylcholine in macaque striate cortex should boost feed ...
Jose L. Herrero, Marc A. Gieselmann, Alexander Thiele   +2 more
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Organocatalytic Enantioselective Addition of Malonates to Cyclic Imines: A Short Total Synthesis of Tetraponerine T‐1

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
A stereoselective functionalization method of cyclic imines under mild organocatalytic conditions was developed. Bifunctional cinchona alkaloid catalysts combined with carefully optimized reaction conditions to suppress background reactivity enabled highly enantio‐ and diastereoselective addition reactions of malonates to cyclic imines.
Frederic Kölblin, Helma Wennemers
wiley   +2 more sources

Inhibition of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, a novel facet in the pleiotropic activities of snake venom phospholipases A2.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Phospholipases A2 represent the most abundant family of snake venom proteins. They manifest an array of biological activities, which is constantly expanding. We have recently shown that a protein bitanarin, isolated from the venom of the puff adder Bitis
Catherine A Vulfius, Igor E Kasheverov, Vladislav G Starkov, Alexey V Osipov, Tatyana V Andreeva, Sergey Yu Filkin, Elena V Gorbacheva, Maxim E Astashev, Victor I Tsetlin, Yuri N Utkin   +9 more
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Anti-inflammation of spirocyclopiperazinium salt compound LXM-10 targeting α7 nAChR and M4 mAChR and inhibiting JAK2/STAT3 pathway in rats. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The present study aims to investigate the therapeutic effects of LXM-10 by intragastric administration in both acute and chronic inflammatory models, and to explore the underlying molecular mechanisms.
Weiwei Zhang, Qi Sun, Xiaoli Gao, Yimin Jiang, Runtao Li, Jia Ye   +5 more
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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and cancer

Biomedical Reports, 2016
Nicotine, the primary addictive constituent of cigarettes, is believed to contribute to cancer promotion and progression through the activation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), which are membrane ligand-gated cation channels. nAChRs activation can be triggered by the neurotransmitter Ach, or certain other biological compounds, such as ...
DANG, NINGNING, MENG, XIANGUANG, SONG, HAIYAN   +2 more
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Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Control Encoding and Retrieval of Associative Recognition Memory through Plasticity in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

Cell Reports, 2018
Summary: Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) expressed in the medial prefrontal cortex have critical roles in cognitive function. However, whether nAChRs are required for associative recognition memory and the mechanisms by which nAChRs may ...
Marie H. Sabec, Susan Wonnacott, E. Clea Warburton, Zafar I. Bashir   +3 more
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Systemic injection of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist mecamylamine affects licking, eyelid size, and locomotor and autonomic activities but not temporal prediction in male mice

Molecular Brain, 2022
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are thought to be associated with a wide range of phenomena, such as movement, learning, memory, attention, and addiction. However, the causal relationship between nicotinic receptor activity and behavior remains unclear.
Shohei Kaneko, Yasuyuki Niki, Kota Yamada, Daiki Nasukawa, Yusuke Ujihara, Koji Toda   +5 more
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