In vitro studies and in vivo pharmacologic studies have demonstrated that albuterol has a preferential effect on beta2-adrenergic receptors compared with isoproterenol. While it is recognized that beta2-adrenergic receptors are the predominant receptors in bronchial smooth muscle, data indicate that there is a population of beta2-receptors in the human heart existing in a concentration between 10% and 50%. The precise function of these receptors has not been established (see WARNINGS).. The pharmacologic effects of beta-adrenergic agonist drugs, including albuterol, are at least in part attributable to stimulation through beta-adrenergic receptors of intracellular adenyl cyclase, the enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to cyclic-3,5-adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP). Increased cyclic AMP levels are associated with relaxation of bronchial smooth muscle and inhibition of release of mediators of immediate hypersensitivity from cells, especially from mast ...

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Perisomatic GABAergic inhibition is thought to play a prominent role in hippocampal oscillations associated with the release of acetylcholine (ACh) from septal cholinergic afferents. A prominent hypothesis states that parvalbumin (PV)-containing basket cells, activated concurrently by ACh and fast glutamatergic input, drive these rhythms. However, this model - generated solely from in vitro studies using bath application of cholinergic agonists - has never been tested under conditions of endogenous ACh release. To investigate the selective effects of endogenous ACh on inhibitory microcircuits in slices, we have taken an optogenetic approach by injecting choline acetyltransferase (ChAT)-Cre mice with a Cre-dependent AAV vector carrying the light-activated cation channel Channelrhodopsin2 (ChR2). In acute hippocampal slices taken from these animals, brief trains of blue light generate sustained low-frequency rhythmic IPSCs in CA1 pyramidal cells, and inhibitory local field potentials (LFPs), even ...

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Delayed Development of Traumatic Intracerebellar Hematoma. Case Report:-Significance of Serial CT Scan and Management- （1981 ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Benign traumatic intracerebellar hematoma. AU - Pozzati, E.. AU - Piazza, G.. AU - Padovani, R.. AU - Gaist, G.. PY - 1981. Y1 - 1981. N2 - Prompt surgical intervention is thought to be necessary in patients with traumatic intracerebellar hematoma. The case reported here ran a benign course without operation. Pertinent serial computed tomographic scans are presented. It is concluded that not all traumatic hematomas of the cerebellum require operation.. AB - Prompt surgical intervention is thought to be necessary in patients with traumatic intracerebellar hematoma. The case reported here ran a benign course without operation. Pertinent serial computed tomographic scans are presented. It is concluded that not all traumatic hematomas of the cerebellum require operation.. UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0019435506&partnerID=8YFLogxK. UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=0019435506&partnerID=8YFLogxK. M3 - Article. C2 - 7207764. AN - ...

Cotinine as a biomarker of systemic nicotine exposure in spit tobacco users. The potential impact of a low-nitrosamine smokeless tobacco product on cigarette smoking in the United States: estimates of a panel of experts

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Atracrium is a nicotinic receptor antagonist which stimulate the paralysis of the skeletal muscle. Atracrium is given via intravenous route. Atracrium is known as non depolarizing neuromuscular blocker.

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Neuronal nicotinic ACh receptors (nAChRs) are present in the rat medial habenula (MHB) and interpeduncular nucleus (IPN), two brain regions connected through the fasciculus retroflexus (FR). The goal of the present study was to compare the electrophysiological and pharmacological characteristics of nAChRs located at pre- and postsynaptic sites within the MHB-IPN system. nAChRs located on the soma of IPN neurons were studied using patch-clamp techniques and a preparation of acutely isolated neurons. Whole-cell currents evoked by Ach and nicotine showed an intense rectification at positive membrane potentials. nAChR channels were relatively nonselective for cations, had a unitary conductance of 35 pS, and were activated by several nicotinic agonists with the following rank order: cytisine greater than ACh greater than nicotine greater than dimethylphenylpiperazinium (DMPP). They were blocked by mecamylamine, hexamethonium, curare, and dihydro-beta-erythroidine (DHBE), but were insensitive to ...

Most previous in vitro studies investigating mecamylamines mode of action have found its inhibitory activity to be voltage-dependent, which suggests that it functions as an open channel blocker (Ascher et al., 1979; Varanda et al., 1985; Fieber and Adams, 1991). Thus, mecamylamine is generally thought of as a noncompetitive antagonist producing inhibition by binding to sites other than the agonist activation site (Francis and Papke, 1996). However, Ascher et al. (1979) also found that inhibition of parasympathetic ganglia of the rat was lessened when the drug was coapplied at high agonist concentrations, an observation that is more consistent with a competitive mechanism of inhibition. Moreover, Bertrand et al. (1990)reported that the inhibitory effects of mecamylamine on heterologously expressed chick α4β2 receptors was voltage independent, yet present only after coapplication with an agonist. Previous research by this lab suggests that mecamylamines inhibition of rat α3β4 receptors is ...

The major findings of our study are: 1) that a nicotine withdrawal syndrome with both somatic and affective signs can be observed in the mouse whether by cessation of nicotine chronic exposure (spontaneous) or by acute challenge with various nicotinic antagonists (precipitated); 2) that nicotine withdrawal signs seem to be mediated by multiple neuronal nicotinic subtypes; and 3) that genotypic factors, withdrawal history, and dose and duration of nicotine exposure influence the development of nicotine withdrawal and its severity.. The observed nicotine abstinence in the mouse displayed a variety of withdrawal signs that were dose-dependent and attenuated by a single dose of nicotinic agonists including nicotine and metanicotine, a nicotinic agonist with preferential affinity to neuronal nicotinic receptors (Bencherif et al., 1996). Furthermore, it was precipitated by a single dose of mecamylamine, a noncompetitive nicotinic antagonist. These results show clearly that our mouse model meets ...

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Koreas demographic profile is undergoing tremendous change as the country rapidly ages at one of the fastest rates in the world. Indeed, the country is expected to become an aged society in 2018 when the proportion of elderly is estimated to reach 14.3% of the total population. With the notable increase in the number of elderly individuals, the incidence of osteoporotic fractures will also likely increase. Osteoporosis is a systemic musculoskeletal disease that is characterized by the decreased bone quantity and the abnormalities of the microstructures. There are both conservative and surgical treatment modalities for the fracture: conservative treatments include pharmacological treatments and orthosis; surgical treatments include vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, and reconstructive surgery. Clinicians should consider the severity of osteoporosis, the concurrent osteoporotic fracture, the age and sex of the patient, and the underlying diseases in making a patient-tailored prescription.

The extremely potent and selective nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist methyllycaconitine, MLA, and related norditerpene alkaloids are finding increasing use as neurochemical probes and as targets for structure-activity relationship studies. In this work, an assay procedure for MLA which utilises ion suppression reverse-phase HPLC with UV absorbance detection at 270 nm is described. The method detected 280 ng MLA on column.

Renshaw cell properties have been studied extensively for over 50 years, making them a uniquely well-defined class of spinal interneuron. Recent work has revealed novel ways to identify Renshaw cells in situ and this in turn has promoted a range of studies that have determined their ontogeny and organization of synaptic inputs in unprecedented detail. In this review we illustrate how mature Renshaw cell properties and connectivity arise through a combination of activity-dependent and genetically specified mechanisms. These new insights should aid the development of experimental strategies to manipulate Renshaw cells in spinal circuits and clarify their role in modulating motor output.

To the Editor -. We have read with great interest the paper by Leung et al. published in European Respiratory Journal [1], the correspondence by Russo et al. [2] and also the subsequent comment by the first group [3]. Both research teams are reporting increased ACE-2 expression in airways of current smokers and those with COPD with important implications for COVID-19 patients. Since ACE-2 has been shown to be the main receptor utilised by SARS-CoV-2 to enter the host cells [2], the authors conclude that nicotine is a risk factor for COVID-19 pandemic. Russo et al. [2] have shown that nicotine up-regulates ACE-2 through alpha7 nAChRs which are present in neuronal and non-neuronal cells. Leung et al. [3] provided further evidence in support of this hypothesis and propose the repurposing of alpha7-nAChR antagonists for the pandemic (e.g. methyllycaconitine, alpa-conotoxin), expecting that such treatment will alter ACE-2 expression and prevent SARS-CoV-2 entry.. While this hypothesis is based on ...

July 30, 2018, admin Alpha7 Nicotinic Receptors, A focused RNAi display identifies Dhx9 being a regulator of ABT-737 awareness in E-myc/Bcl-2 lymphomas. by an individual infections with retrovirus expressing the indicated shRNA in MLS. Lymphomas had been plated onto feeder levels at a thickness of 2.5 105 cells/mL, and cells had been propagated in the current presence of either vehicle (0.1% dimethylsulfoxide) […]. GSK2118436A, PSEN1. ...