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cholinergic

In biology, activity of nerve fibres to release the neurotransmitter acetylcholine that mediates the transmission of nerve impulses between nerves or between nerves and muscles. Anticholinergic agents, such as pilocarpine, prolong the action of acetylcholine and have a role in the treatment of glaucoma.



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Over the course of development, the concentration of transporter sites rose more than 3-fold, achieving concentrations comparable with those of cholinergically enriched mammalian brain regions.
The sea urchin embryo as a model for mammalian developmental ... by Slotkin, Theodore A. / Environmental Health Perspectives
With the progressive rise in receptor expression in cholinergically enriched regions (59), a second set of effects emerges, influencing cell replication and neuritic outgrowth, that is cholinergically related but nevertheless independent of the generation of chlorpyrifos oxon, the active metabolite that inhibits cholinesterase (3,8,10,16).
An Invertebrate Model of the Developmental Neurotoxicity of ... by Slotkin, Theodore A. / Environmental Health Perspectives
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