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Scientific ReportsThe neurotransmitter acetylcholine supports goal-directed cognitive functions via activation of its nicotinic and muscarinic classes of receptors within the prefrontal cortex.
Ashutosh V. Patel +6 more
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Structure of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 1993 Nicotinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptors convert the binding of ACh into the opening of a cation-conducting channel. New information about the regions of the receptor most immediately involved in its function, namely the ACh-binding sites, the gate and the channel, has come from two approaches.
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Structural model of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor isotypes bound to acetylcholine and nicotine [PDF]
BMC Structural Biology, 2002 Nicotine is a psychoactive drug presenting a diverse array of biological activities, some positive, such as enhancement of cognitive performances, others negative, such as addiction liability. Ligands that discriminate between the different isotypes of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) could present improved pharmacology and toxicity profile ...
Schapira, Matthieu +2 more
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Trihexyphenidyl rescues the deficit in dopamine neurotransmission in a mouse model of DYT1 dystonia
Neurobiology of Disease, 2019 Trihexyphenidyl, a nonselective muscarinic receptor antagonist, is the small molecule drug of choice for the treatment of DYT1 dystonia, but it is poorly tolerated due to significant side effects.
Anthony M. Downs +4 more
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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors as targets for antidepressants [PDF]
Molecular Psychiatry, 2002 While the monoamine deficiency hypothesis of depression is still most commonly used to explain the actions of antidepressant drugs, a growing body of evidence has accumulated that is not adequately explained by the hypothesis. This article draws attention to contributions from another apparently common pharmacological property of antidepressant ...
R D, Shytle +5 more
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The Role of Nicotinic Receptors on Ca2+ Signaling in Bovine Chromaffin Cells
Current Issues in Molecular BiologyChromaffin cells have been used as a physiological model to understand neurosecretion in mammals for many years. Nicotinic receptors located in the cells’ membrane are stimulated by acetylcholine, and they participate in the exocytosis of chromaffin ...
Amparo Gil +3 more
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Origin of acetylcholine antagonism in ELIC, a bacterial pentameric ligand-gated ion channel
Communications Biology, 2022 A structural and functional study of the prokaryotic ligand-gated ion channel, ELIC, provides insight into the origin of agonism and antagonism at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
Mykhaylo Slobodyanyuk +6 more
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Acetylcholine and cholinergic receptors
Brain and Neuroscience Advances, 2019 This review provides a distillate of the advances in knowledge about the neurotransmitter functions of acetylcholine over the 50-year period between 1967 and 2017, together with incremental information about the cognate nicotinic and muscarinic ...
David A. Brown
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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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Molecular Pain, 2017 Background Accumulating evidence has shown that the signal from spinal brain-derived neurotrophic factor/tyrosine receptor kinase B-K + -Cl − cotransporter-2 plays a critical role in the process of pain hypersensitivity.
Wei Gu +6 more
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