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Structural insights into the human niacin receptor HCA2-Gi signalling complex

Nature Communications, 2023
Hydroxyl-carboxylic acid receptor 2 (HCA2) functions as a high-affinity receptor for nicotinic acid (vitamin B3). Here, authors report the cryo-EM structure of the HCA2-Gi complex with the agonist MK-6892 and inactive state crystal structures of mutation
Yang Yang, Hye Jin Kang, Ruogu Gao, Jingjing Wang, Gye Won Han, Jeffrey F. DiBerto, Lijie Wu, Jiahui Tong, Lu Qu, Yiran Wu, Ryan Pileski, Xuemei Li, Xuejun Cai Zhang, Suwen Zhao, Terry Kenakin, Quan Wang, Raymond C. Stevens, Wei Peng, Bryan L. Roth, Zihe Rao, Zhi-Jie Liu   +20 more
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Nicotine receptor partial agonists for smoking cessation [PDF]

Sao Paulo Medical Journal, 2007
Nicotine receptor partial agonists may help people to stop smoking by a combination of maintaining moderate levels of dopamine to counteract withdrawal symptoms (acting as an agonist) and reducing smoking satisfaction (acting as an antagonist). Varenicline was developed as a nicotine receptor partial agonist from cytisine, a drug widely used in central
Cahill, Kate, Stead, Lindsay F., Lancaster, Tim, Polonio, Igor Bastos   +3 more
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Nicotine receptor partial agonists for smoking cessation

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2023
Nicotine receptor partial agonists may help people to stop smoking by a combination of maintaining moderate levels of dopamine to counteract withdrawal symptoms (acting as an agonist) and reducing smoking satisfaction (acting as an antagonist). This is an update of a Cochrane Review first published in 2007.To assess the effectiveness of nicotine ...
Livingstone-Banks, J, Fanshawe, TR, Thomas, KH, Theodoulou, A, Hajizadeh, A, Hartman, L, Lindson, N   +6 more
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Contrasting properties of α7-selective orthosteric and allosteric agonists examined on native nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Subtype-selective ligands are important tools for the pharmacological characterisation of neurotransmitter receptors. This is particularly the case for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), given the heterogeneity of their subunit composition.
JasKiran K Gill, Anna Chatzidaki, Daniel Ursu, Emanuele Sher, Neil S Millar   +4 more
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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the synganglion of the tick Ixodes ricinus: Functional characterization using membrane microtransplantation

International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance, 2020
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are an important class of excitatory receptors in the central nervous system of arthropods. In the ticks Ixodes ricinus, the functional and pharmacological properties of nicotinic receptors located in their neurons are ...
Anaïs Le Mauff, Hamza Chouikh, Alison Cartereau, Claude L. Charvet, Cédric Neveu, Claude Rispe, Olivier Plantard, Emiliane Taillebois, Steeve H. Thany   +8 more
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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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Effects of kynurenic acid and choline on lipopolysaccharide-induced cyclooxygenase pathway

Türk Biyokimya Dergisi, 2023
Inflammation can be endogenously modulated by the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway via calcium (Ca2+)-permeable alpha-7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR) ion channel expressed in immune cells.
Baris Elif, Simsek Oguzhan, Yoca Ozge Uysal, Demir Ayse Banu, Tosun Metiner   +4 more
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Regions of beta 2 and beta 4 responsible for differences between the steady state dose-response relationships of the alpha 3 beta 2 and alpha 3 beta 4 neuronal nicotinic receptors [PDF]

, 1995
We constructed chimeras of the rat beta 2 and beta 4 neuronal nicotinic subunits to locate the regions that contribute to differences between the acetylcholine (ACh) dose-response relationships of the alpha 3 beta 2 and alpha 3 beta 4 receptors ...
Cohen, B. N., Davidson, N., Figl, A., Labarca, C., Lester, H. A., Quick, M. W.   +5 more
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Nicotine receptor partial agonists for smoking cessation [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2016
Nicotine receptor partial agonists may help people to stop smoking by a combination of maintaining moderate levels of dopamine to counteract withdrawal symptoms (acting as an agonist) and reducing smoking satisfaction (acting as an antagonist).To review the efficacy of nicotine receptor partial agonists, including varenicline and cytisine, for smoking ...
Cahill, Kate, Lindson-Hawley, Nicola, Thomas, Kyla H, Fanshawe, Thomas R, Lancaster, Tim   +4 more
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Differential Contribution of Subunit Interfaces to α 9 α 10 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Function [PDF]

, 2017
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors can be assembled from either homomeric or heteromeric pentameric subunit combinations. At the interface of the extracellular domains of adjacent subunits lies the acetylcholine binding site, composed of a principal ...
Boffi, Juan Carlos, Bouzat, Cecilia Beatriz, Collins, Toby, Corradi, Jeremias, Craig, Patricio Oliver, Elgoyhen, Ana Belen, Gill Thind, JasKiran K., Lipovsek, Maria Marcela, Marcovich, Irina, Millar, Neil S., Moglie, Marcelo Javier, Plazas, Paola Viviana   +11 more
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