Acetylcholine is an autocrine or paracrine hormone synthesized and secreted by airway bronchial epithelial cells

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2498-2506

  Proskocil, Becky J ^a   Sekhon, Harmanjatinder S ^a,b   Jia, Yibing ^a   Savchenko, Valentina ^c   Blakely, Randy D ^c   Lindstrom, Jon ^d   Spindel, Eliot R ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINESTERASE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN LYNX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; BRONCHUS SECRETION; CELL CULTURE; CELL SECRETION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONKEY; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA CONFORMATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRONCHI; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EPITHELIAL CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA MULATTA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEUROPEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 2042443069     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-1728     Document Type: Article

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