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Erythrina mulungu alkaloids are potent inhibitors of neuronal nicotinic receptor currents in mammalian cells. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Crude extracts and three isolated alkaloids from Erythrina mulungu plants have shown anxiolytic effects in different animal models. We investigated whether these alkaloids could affect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and if they are selective for ...
Pedro Setti-Perdigão +5 more
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Heliyon, 2022 Rabies causes approximately 60,000 casualties annually and has a case fatality rate approaching 100% once clinical signs occur. The glycoprotein on the surface of the virion is important for the host immune response and facilitates interaction of the ...
Marianne Lian +2 more
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Biomedicines, 2022 In recent years, the inhibition of beta-amyloid (Aβ) aggregation has emerged as a potential strategy for Alzheimer’s disease. KLVFF, a small peptide corresponding to the aminoacidic sequence 16-20 of Aβ, reduces Aβ fibrillation dose dependently ...
Hanna Trebesova +3 more
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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 +8 more
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Pharmacological receptors of nematoda as target points for action of antiparasitic drugs [PDF]
Veterinarski Glasnik, 2010 Cholinergic receptors of parasitic nematodes are one of the most important possible sites of action of antiparasitic drugs. This paper presents some of our own results of electrophysiological and pharamcological examinations of nicotinic and muscarinic ...
Trailović Saša M. +3 more
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Bispyridinium Compounds Inhibit Both Muscle and Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Human Cell Lines. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Standard treatment of poisoning by organophosphorus anticholinesterases uses atropine to reduce the muscarinic effects of acetylcholine accumulation and oximes to reactivate acetylcholinesterase (the effectiveness of which depends on the specific ...
Avi Ring +8 more
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Cloning and characterization of the hamster and guinea pig nicotinic acid receptors
Journal of Lipid Research, 2007 In this study, we present the identification and characterization of hamster and guinea pig nicotinic acid receptors. The hamster receptor shares ∼80–90% identity with the nucleotide and amino acid sequences of human, mouse, and rat receptors. The guinea
April Smith Torhan +3 more
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Curiouser and Curiouser: The Macrocyclic Lactone, Abamectin, Is also a Potent Inhibitor of Pyrantel/Tribendimidine Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors of Gastro-Intestinal Worms. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Nematode parasites may be controlled with drugs, but their regular application has given rise to concerns about the development of resistance. Drug combinations may be more effective than single drugs and delay the onset of resistance.
Melanie Abongwa +3 more
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Signaling of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in mononuclear phagocytes
Pharmacological Research, 2023 Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are not only expressed by the nervous system and at the neuro-muscular junction but also by mononuclear phagocytes, which belong to the innate immune system.
Katrin Richter, Veronika Grau
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2015 Acetylcholine (ACh) release onto nicotinic receptors directly activates subsets of inhibitory interneurons in hippocampal CA1. However, the specific interneurons activated and their effect on the hippocampal network is not completely understood ...
L. Andrew Bell +2 more
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