Nicotinic and muscarinic subtypes in the human brain: changes with aging and dementia

A Nordberg, I Alafuzoff… - Journal of neuroscience …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Different effects of normal aging on muscarinic and nicotinic receptor subtypes were
observed in postmortem brain tissue from different regions of the human brain. A significant …

Differential alteration of various cholinergic markers in cortical and subcortical regions of human brain in Alzheimer's disease

DM Araujo, PA Lapchak, Y Robitaille… - Journal of …, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
The main objective of the present study was to determine whether cholinergic markers
(choline acetyl‐transferase activity and nicotinic and muscarinic receptors) are altered in …

Cholinergic nicotinic and muscarinic receptors in dementia of Alzheimer, Parkinson and Lewy body types

EK Perry, CJ Smith, JA Court, RH Perry - Journal of Neural Transmission …, 1990 - Springer
Cholinergic nicotinic and muscarinic receptor binding were measured in post mortem
human brain tissue, using low (nM) concentrations of (3 H)-nicotine to detect predominately …

Changes in nicotinic and muscarinic cholinergic receptors in Alzheimer‐type dementia

S Shimohama, T Taniguchi, M Fujiwara… - Journal of …, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
Nicotinic and muscarinic cholinergic receptors were studied in autopsied brains from four
histologically normal controls and five histopathologically verified cases of Alzheimer‐type …

Neuroreceptor changes in Alzheimer disease.

A Nordberg - Cerebrovascular and brain metabolism reviews, 1992 - europepmc.org
Multiple neuroreceptor changes are present in Alzheimer disease. These observations are
based upon analysis from autopsy brain tissue or more seldom from neurosurgical biopsies …

Decreased muscarinic receptor binding in cerebral cortex and hippocampus in Alzheimer's disease

KJ Reinikainen, PJ Riekkinen, T Halonen, M Laakso - Life sciences, 1987 - Elsevier
Muscarinic (cholinergic) receptor binding sites (MRB) were studied by determining the 3H-
QNB binding in four cortical areas and hippocampus of 20 histologically confirmed …

A postmortem study of brain nicotinic receptors in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease

JO Rinne, T Myllykyla, P Lo - Brain research, 1991 - Elsevier
Brain nicotinic receptors were studied in the frontal cortex, temporal cortex, hippocampus
and caudate nucleus in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

Brain muscarinic receptor subtypes are differently affected in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease

JO Rinne, P Lo, UK Rinne - Brain research, 1989 - Elsevier
The muscarinic receptor subtypes determined by displacing [3 H] quinuclidinyl benzylate by
carbachol showed distinct profiles in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in Parkinson's disease …

Differential regulation of molecular subtypes of muscarinic receptors in Alzheimer's disease

DD Flynn, G Ferrari‐DiLeo, DC Mash… - Journal of …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular subtypes of muscarinic receptors (m1–m5) are novel targets for cholinergic
replacement therapies in Alzheimer's disease. However, the status of these receptors in …

Reduced number of [3H] nicotine and [3H] acetylcholine binding sites in the frontal cortex of Alzheimer brains

A Nordberg, B Winblad - Neuroscience letters, 1986 - Elsevier
Nicotinic cholinergic receptors were measured in human frontal cortex using [3 H] nicotine
and [3 H] acetylcholine (in the presence of atropine) as receptor ligands. A parallel marked …