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Multiple Routes for Glutamate Receptor Trafficking: Surface Diffusion and Membrane Traffic Cooperate to Bring Receptors to Synapses [PDF]

Science's STKE (electronic resource) : signal transduction knowledge environment 327 (21/03/2006) 13, 2007
Trafficking of glutamate receptors into and out of synapses is critically involved in the plasticity of excitatory synaptic transmission. Endocytosis and exocytosis of receptors have initially been thought to account alone for this trafficking. However, membrane proteins also traffic through surface lateral diffusion in the plasma membrane. We describe
arxiv  

Autoradiographic localization of muscarinic cholinergic receptors in rat brainstem

Journal of Neuroscience, 1981
We have localized muscarinic cholinergic receptors in the rat brainstem by a light microscopic autoradiographic method. Initially, we examined the kinetics and specificity of the binding of radiolabeled quinuclidinyl benzilate ([3H]QNB) in slide-mounted,
J. Wamsley, M. S. Lewis, W. Young, M. Kuhar   +3 more
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Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptors in VTA Glutamate Neurons Modulate Excitatory Transmission

Cell Reports, 2018
Summary: Ventral tegmental area (VTA) glutamate neurons are important components of reward circuitry, but whether they are subject to cholinergic modulation is unknown.
Yijin Yan, Can Peng, Matthew C. Arvin, Xiao-Tao Jin, Veronica J. Kim, Matthew D. Ramsey, Yong Wang, Sambashiva Banala, David L. Wokosin, J. Michael McIntosh, Luke D. Lavis, Ryan M. Drenan   +11 more
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Antinociceptive Activity of Methanolic Extract of Clinacanthus nutans Leaves: Possible Mechanisms of Action Involved

Pain Research and Management, 2018
Methanolic extract of Clinacanthus nutans Lindau leaves (MECN) has been proven to possess antinociceptive activity that works via the opioid and NO-dependent/cGMP-independent pathways.
Zainul Amiruddin Zakaria, Mohammad Hafiz Abdul Rahim, Rushduddin Al Jufri Roosli, Mohd Hijaz Mohd Sani, Maizatul Hasyima Omar, Siti Farah Mohd. Tohid, Fezah Othman, Siew Mooi Ching, Arifah Abdul Kadir   +8 more
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Cholinergic modulation of microglial activation by α7 nicotinic receptors

, 2004
Almost all degenerative diseases of the CNS are associated with chronic inflammation. A central step in this process is the activation of brain mononuclear phagocyte cells, called microglia.
R. Shytle, Takashi Mori, K. Townsend, M. Vendrame, N. Sun, J. Zeng, J. Ehrhart, A. Silver, P. Sanberg, Jun Tan   +9 more
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Mice Lacking M2 and M3 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors Are Devoid of Cholinergic Smooth Muscle Contractions But Still Viable

Journal of Neuroscience, 2002
Cholinergic agents elicit prominent smooth muscle contractions via stimulation of muscarinic receptors that comprise five distinct subtypes (M1–M5). Although such contractions are important for autonomic organs, the role of each subtype has not been ...
M. Matsui, Daisuke Motomura, T. Fujikawa, Jian Jiang, S. Takahashi, T. Manabe, M. Taketo   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Selectively driving cholinergic fibers optically in the thalamic reticular nucleus promotes sleep

eLife, 2016
Cholinergic projections from the basal forebrain and brainstem are thought to play important roles in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and arousal. Using transgenic mice in which channelrhdopsin-2 is selectively expressed in cholinergic neurons, we show ...
Kun-Ming Ni, Xiao-Jun Hou, Ci-Hang Yang, Ping Dong, Yue Li, Ying Zhang, Ping Jiang, Darwin K Berg, Shumin Duan, Xiao-Ming Li   +9 more
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Muscarinic cholinergic receptors in rabbit retina

Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 1985
Abstract Binding sites with high affinity and specificity for [3 H]-quinuclidinyl benzilate are present in rabbit retinal homogenates. Only one set of binding sites was detected with an apparent dissociation constant of 2.13 times 10−10 M and a density of 59.2 fmol mg−1 of protein.
M J Neal, C Dawson
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Steroid Receptors and Vertebrate Evolution [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
Considering that life on earth evolved about 3.7 billion years ago, vertebrates are young, appearing in the fossil record during the Cambrian explosion about 542 to 515 million years ago. Results from sequence analyses of genomes from bacteria, yeast, plants, invertebrates and vertebrates indicate that receptors for adrenal steroids (aldosterone ...
arxiv  

Accuracy of direct gradient sensing by cell-surface receptors [PDF]

arXiv, 2009
Chemotactic cells of eukaryotic organisms are able to accurately sense shallow chemical concentration gradients using cell-surface receptors. This sensing ability is remarkable as cells must be able to spatially resolve small fractional differences in the numbers of particles randomly arriving at cell-surface receptors by diffusion.
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