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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist attenuates ILC2-dependent airway hyperreactivity
Nature Communications, 2016 Airway hyperreactivity is driven by type 2 cytokines produced by ILC2 and Th2 cells. Here the authors show that an α7-nicotinic receptor agonist (GTS-21) inhibits ILC2 responses and is therapeutic against Alternaria-induced airway hyperreactivity in a ...
Lauriane Galle-Treger +7 more
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The effect of amixin and agmatine on cytochrome c release from isolated mitochondria [PDF]
The Ukrainian Biochemical Journal, 2017 Mitochondrial nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) control permeability transition pore formation and cytochrome c release in the presence of apoptogenic factors.
K. R. Uspenska +3 more
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Soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans Maupas as a convenient model organism to study anthelmintic activity of plant extracts [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The article deals with the study of the possibility to use free-living soil nematode C. elegans in researches of anthelmintic activity of plant raw material. A. sativum juice and aqueous extract of T. vulgare flowers were used in experiments. It is shown
Egorova Anastasia +4 more
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Agonist activation of a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor [PDF]
Neuropharmacology, 2015 How does an agonist activate a receptor? In this article I consider the activation process in muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChRs), a prototype for understanding the energetics of binding and gating in other ligand-gated ion channels. Just as movements that generate gating currents activate voltage-gated ion channels, movements at binding ...
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 Blood levels of the acute phase reactant C-reactive protein (CRP) are frequently measured as a clinical marker for inflammation, but the biological functions of CRP are still controversial.
Katrin Richter +22 more
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The nicotinic acetylcholine receptors of the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum: formation of two distinct drug targets by varying the relative expression levels of two subunits. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2009 Parasitic nematodes are of medical and veterinary importance, adversely affecting human health and animal welfare. Ascaris suum is a gastrointestinal parasite of pigs; in addition to its veterinary significance it is a good model of the human parasite ...
Sally M Williamson +7 more
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Suppression of methamphetamine-seeking behavior by nicotinic agonists [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006 To understand the mechanism of methamphetamine (MAP) craving from the viewpoint of nicotinic acetylcholinergic transmission, we examined the responsible site of the brain for anticraving effects produced by nicotinic agonists by using a MAP self-administration paradigm in rats.
Takato, Hiranita +4 more
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Silent agonists for α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
Pharmacological Research, 2023 We discuss models for the activation and desensitization of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) and the effects of efficacious type II positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) that destabilize α7 desensitized states. Type II PAMs such as PNU-120596 can be used to distinguish inactive compounds from silent agonists, compounds that produce little ...
Roger L. Papke +2 more
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Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2017 Cholinergic mechanisms in supramammillary nucleus (SuM), especially the lateral SuM (lSuM) modulates septo-hippocampal neural activity. The lSuM, as compared to the contiguous medial SuM (mSuM) has relatively dense projections to hippocampus and ...
Mohammed Z. Ariffin +4 more
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1,2,3,4-Tetrahydro-1,4-methanonaphthalene-2,3-diol
Acta Crystallographica Section E, 2009 The title compound, C11H12O2, is an intermediate in the synthesis of Varenicline, a nicotinic receptor partial agonist used to treat smoking addiction. In the crystal structure, there is an intramolecular O—H...O hydrogen bond that generates an S(5)
Jian Xu +4 more
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