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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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Alpha9 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and the treatment of pain [PDF]

, 2009
Chronic pain is a vexing worldwide problem that causes substantial disability and consumes significant medical resources. Although there are numerous analgesic medications, these work through a small set of molecular mechanisms.
Absalom, Nathan, Chebib, Mary, Elgoyhen, Ana Belen, McIntosh, J. Michael, Vincler, Michelle   +4 more
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Multi‐Targeting Ligands as Prospective Therapeutics for Alzheimer's Disease, a Prevalent Neurodegenerative Disorder: Mechanistic Insights, Emerging Targets and Drug Discovery Campaigns

Medicinal Research Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative condition characterized by progressive cognitive impairment, memory deterioration, and neuronal dysfunction. Its complex pathophysiology involves multiple interlinked processes, including amyloid‐β (Aβ) aggregation, tau hyperphosphorylation, oxidative stress, neuroinflammation ...
Amandeep Thakur, Mandeep Rana, Sakshi Vanjani, Kei‐Chi Liou, Rajeev Taliyan, Kunal Nepali, Chih‐Hao Yang   +6 more
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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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Thiol-reactive analogues of galanthamine, codeine and morphine as potential probes to interrogate allosteric binding within nAChRs [PDF]

, 2016
Alkaloids including galanthamine (1) and codeine (2) are reported to be positive allosteric modulators of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) but the binding sites responsible for this activity are not known with certainty.
Balle, Thomas, Chebib, Mary, Gallagher, Ryan, McLeod, Malcolm   +3 more
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Investigation of the Mechanism of Cinnamaldehyde in Irritable Bowel Syndrome Based via Network Pharmacology, Molecular Docking, and Animal Experiments

Pediatric Discovery, EarlyView.
Through network pharmacology and molecular docking, it has been discovered that CA can target MAOB, among other proteins, to exert a therapeutic effect in IBS. In vivo, CA lowered visceral hypersensitivity, anxiety and depression‐like behaviors, and fecal water content, highlighting its therapeutic potential for IBS via anti‐inflammatory pathways ...
Qingyang Yu, Boqing Xu, Chunfang Dai, Yayan Pang, Zhifang Dong   +4 more
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Activation of spinal alpha-7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor shortens the duration of remifentanil-induced postoperative hyperalgesia by upregulating KCC2 in the spinal dorsal horn in rats

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, Wei Zhang, Yishan Lei, Yin Cui, Shuaishuai Chu, Xiaoping Gu, Zhengliang Ma   +6 more
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Dendritic spine density of prefrontal layer 6 pyramidal neurons in relation to apical dendrite sculpting by nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2015
Prefrontal layer 6 (L6) pyramidal neurons play an important role in the adult control of attention, facilitated by their strong activation by nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
Lily eKang, Michael K Tian, Craig D. C. Bailey, Craig D. C. Bailey, Evelyn K Lambe, Evelyn K Lambe, Evelyn K Lambe   +6 more
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Structurally similar allosteric modulators of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors exhibit five distinct pharmacological effects. [PDF]

, 2015
Activation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) is associated with the binding of agonists such as acetylcholine to an extracellular site that is located at the interface between two adjacent receptor subunits.
D'Oyley, JM, Dhankher, P, Gill-Thind, JK, Millar, NS, Sheppard, TD   +4 more
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Neuropharmacological targets for drug action in vestibular sensory pathways [PDF]

, 2017
The use of pharmacological agents is often the preferred approach to the management of vestibular dysfunction. In the vestibular sensory pathways, the sensory neuroepithelia are thought to be influenced by a diverse number of neuroactive substances that ...
Jones, Timothy A, Lee, Choongheon
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