Presence of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in cat carotid body afferent system

Machiko Shirahata; Yumiko Ishizawa; Maria Rudisill; Brian Schofield; Robert S. Fitzgerald

doi:10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01015-4

Presence of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in cat carotid body afferent system

Machiko Shirahata, Yumiko Ishizawa, Maria Rudisill, Brian Schofield, Robert S. Fitzgerald

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Abstract

With immunocytochemical techniques using a monoclonal antibody for α7 subunits of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, we have found these subunits to be exclusively expressed in nerve fibers in the carotid body. Double-immunostaining showed that α7 subunit-positive nerve endings enveloped tyrosine hydroxylase-positive glomus cells. Some carotid sinus nerve fibers and tyrosine hydroxylase-positive petrosal ganglion neurons also expressed α7 subunits. These data support a role for acetylcholine in carotid body neurotransmission.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	213-217
Number of pages	5
Journal	Brain research
Volume	814
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01015-4
State	Published - Dec 14 1998

Keywords

Antibody
Chemoreceptor
Immunocytochemistry
Tyrosine hydroxylase
α7 subunit

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General Neuroscience
Molecular Biology
Clinical Neurology
Developmental Biology

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