Chemical coding and chemosensory properties of cholinergic brush cells in the mouse gastrointestinal and biliary tract

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Schütz, Burkhard ^a   Jurastow, Innokentij ^b   Bader, Sandra ^b   Ringer, Cornelia ^a,g   von Engelhardt, Jakob ^c,d   Chubanov, Vladimir ^e   Gudermann, Thomas ^e   Diener, Martin ^b   Kummer, Wolfgang ^b   Krasteva Christ, Gabriela ^b,f   Weihe, Eberhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bile duct; Brush cell; ChAT; Cholinergic; ChT1; Gall bladder; Intestine; VAChT

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCIUM; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINE TRANSPORTER; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYTOKERATIN 18; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROSTAGLANDIN; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BILE DUCT; BRUSH BORDER; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STIMULATION; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC BRUSH CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROENDOCRINE CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARGE INTESTINE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PROMOTER REGION; PROTECTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH EPITHELIUM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 84926490123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00087     Document Type: Article

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