Unexpected finding of a marked non-neuronal cholinergic system in human knee joint synovial tissue

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 442, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 128-133

  Grimsholm, Ola ^a   Rantapää Dahlqvist, Solbritt ^b   Dalén, Tore ^b   Forsgren, Sture ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arthritis; ChAT; Cholinergic; Inflammation; Joints

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CELL AGGREGATION; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; JOINT BIOPSY; KNEE; KNEE PROSTHESIS; KNEE SURGERY; LYMPHOID CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOPSY; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 48149086225     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.06.082     Document Type: Article

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