Down-regulation of the non-neuronal acetylcholine synthesis and release machinery in acute allergic airway inflammation of rat and mouse

Life Sciences

Volumn 80, Issue 24-25, 2007, Pages 2263-2269

  Lips, Katrin S ^a   Lührmann, Anke ^b   Tschernig, Thomas ^b   Stoeger, Tobias ^c   Alessandrini, Francesca ^c   Grau, Veronika ^a   Haberberger, Rainer V ^d   Koepsell, Hermann ^e   Pabst, Reinhard ^b   Kummer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIESSEN   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Airway epithelium; Asthma; Choline acetyltransferase; High affinity choline transporter; Non neuronal; Organic cation transporter; Vesicular acetylcholine transporter

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALLERGEN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER; OVALBUMIN;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG LAVAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOWN-REGULATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEURONS; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER 1; OVALBUMIN; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34249726587     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2007.01.026     Document Type: Article

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