Brandon Henderson, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical sciences at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Nathaniel Heintz and his colleagues Inés Ibañez-Tallon and Julie Miwa at The Rockefeller University and colleagues at The Mayo Foundation and Columbia ...

Acetylcholine plays a vital role as a neurotransmitter that oversees cognitive tasks, memory, and the regulation of mood. With aging, our body’s generation of acetylcholine decreases, which ...

Researchers gain insight into the intracellular actions of nicotine, discovering a key factor in the development of addiction. When nicotine enters the brain, it binds to nicotinic acetylcholine ...

IT has been suggested 1 that the vesicle-like structures inside the axon near the neuromuscular junction contain acetylcholine, but that “it would be practically impossible to pack 10 5 ...

Varenicline is a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and has some of the highest success rates among smoking cessation techniques. It also costs next to nothing: £9.90 for 28 film-coated tablets in ...

Research highlights the potential of deep learning in creating proteins that neutralize snake venom, offering new solutions for neglected tropical diseases.

Treated women also used less morphine and did not experience nicotine's usual side effects: hypertension or tachycardia. 1 Nicotine-induced pain relief appears to work through the nicotinic ...

In the eIF4E mice, acetylcholine binding to dopamine axons was impaired, leading to less calcium influx. Increasing calcium restored dopamine release, showing that the problem lies in nicotinic ...