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) …

Nicotinic receptor abnormalities in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

EK Perry, RH Perry, CJ Smith, DJ Dick… - Journal of Neurology …, 1987 - jnnp.bmj.com
The status of cholinergic receptors in dementia is related to the question of potential
cholinergic therapy. Whilst muscarinic receptor binding is generally reported to be normal or …

Expression of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits in the cerebral cortex in Alzheimer's disease: histotopographical correlation with amyloid plaques and …

A Wevers, L Monteggia, S Nowacki… - European Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Impairment of cholinergic transmission and decreased numbers of nicotinic binding sites are
wellknown features accompanying the cognitive dysfunction seen in Alzheimer's disease …

Nicotinic and muscarinic cholinergic receptors in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.

PJ Whitehouse, KJ Kellar - Journal of neural transmission …, 1987 - europepmc.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) and to a lesser extent progressive
supranuclear palsy are characterized by dysfunction of the cholinergic basal forebrain …

Cholinergic receptor binding and autoradiography in brains of non-neurological and senile dementia of Alzheimer-type patients

W Lang, H Henke - Brain Research, 1983 - Elsevier
Muscarinic and nicotinic cholinergic receptor distribution was studied by dry-mount
autoradiography in brains obtained postmortem from patients with senile dementia of …

Expression of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in Alzheimer's disease: postmortem investigations and experimental approaches

A Wevers, L Burghaus, N Moser, B Witter… - Behavioural brain …, 2000 - Elsevier
Nicotinic ligand binding studies have shown rather early that the cholinoceptive system is
affected in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Today, molecular histochemistry enables one to study …

Extraneural cholinergic markers in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

A Adem, A Nordberg, G Bucht… - Progress in neuro …, 1986 - europepmc.org
Muscarinic and nicotinic binding sites were analysed in lymphocytes from patients with
Alzheimer's disease, Multi-infarct dementia, Parkinson's disease and age-matched controls …

[PDF][PDF] Acetylcholine: I Muscarinic receptors

G Pepeu, MG Giovannini - From messengers to molecules …, 2004 - ndl.ethernet.edu.et
The study of brain muscarinic receptors began more than a century ago, long before the
existence of muscarinic receptors was postulated and then demonstrated. However, the …

α4 but not α3 and α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits are lost from the temporal cortex in Alzheimer's disease

CM MartinRuiz, JA Court, E Molnar… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors labelled with tritiated agonists are reduced in the
cerebral cortex in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but to date it has not been demonstrated which …

Visualization of cholinoceptive neurons in the rat neocortex: colocalization of muscarinic and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

EA Van der Zee, C Streefland, AD Strosberg… - Molecular brain …, 1992 - Elsevier
The present investigation analyzes the cellular distribution of muscarinic and nicotinic
acetylcholine receptors in rat neocortex, by use of monoclonal antibodies raised against …