Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α7 subunit is an essential regulator of inflammation

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6921, 2003, Pages 384-388

  Wang, Hong ^a   Yu, Man ^a   Ochani, Mahendar ^a   Amelia, Carol Ann ^a   Tanovic, Mahira ^a   Susarla, Seenu ^a   Li, Jian Hua ^a   Wang, Haichao ^a   Yang, Nuan ^a   Ulloa, Luis ^a   Al Abed, Yousef ^a   Czura, Christopher J ^a   Tracey, Kevin J ^a  

^a N Shore Long Isl Jewish Res Inst ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; NEUROLOGY; TUMORS;

EXCESSIVE INFLAMMATION;

IMMUNOLOGY;

NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR ALPHA 7; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MEDICINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOTOXEMIA; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEPSIS; VAGUS NERVE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGING; ANIMALS; BUNGAROTOXINS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENDOTOXEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NICOTINE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037461768     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01339     Document Type: Article

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