Protein Information

Name choline acetyltransferase
Synonyms CHAT; CHOACTase; CLAT; CMS1A; CMS1A2; ChAT; Choline O acetyltransferase; Choline acetylase…

Compound Information

Name strychnine
CAS strychnidin-10-one

Reference List

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10683407 Darstein M, Landwehrmeyer GB, Kling C, Becker CM, Feuerstein TJ: Strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors in rat caudatoputamen are expressed by cholinergic interneurons. Neuroscience. 2000;96(1):33-9.

Fluorescent dual labelling demonstrated that glycine receptor-like immunoreactivity co-localizes with choline acetyltransferase-like immunoreactivity in rat caudatoputamen.
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9551830 Shefchyk SJ, Espey MJ, Carr P, Nance D, Sawchuk M, Buss R: Evidence for a strychnine-sensitive mechanism and glycine receptors involved in the control of urethral sphincter activity during micturition in the cat. Exp Brain Res. 1998 Apr;119(3):297-306.

Motoneurons in Onufs nucleus in S1 were identified using choline acetyltransferase immunohistochemistry and subsequently processed with a gephyrin monoclonal antibody.
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11160606 Ferreira M, Ebert SN, Perry DC, Yasuda RP, Baker CM, Davila-Garcia MI, Kellar KJ, Gillis RA: Evidence of a functional alpha7-neuronal nicotinic receptor subtype located on motoneurons of the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2001 Feb;296(2):260-9.

Simultaneous staining of rat brainstem sections with anti-alpha7 and anti-choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) antibodies (to identify cholinergic DMV neurons that project into the vagus nerve) revealed that every DMV neuron that was stained for ChAT showed alpha7-staining as well.
To test whether the alpha7-nAChR is similar to the alpha7-homomeric nAChR, experiments were performed in anesthetized rats, and compounds were microinjected into the DMV while monitoring intragastric pressure (IGP). alpha-BGTx and strychnine antagonized nicotine-induced increases in IGP; no antagonism was observed with methyllycaconitine, a compound known to block the homomeric alpha7-nAChR subtype.
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18550725 Quinlan KA, Buchanan JT: Cellular and synaptic actions of acetylcholine in the lamprey spinal cord. . J Neurophysiol. 2008 Aug;100(2):1020-31. Epub 2008 Jun 11.

Immunohistochemistry for choline acetyltransferase, performed in combination with retrograde filling of motoneurons, demonstrated a population of nonmotoneuron cholinergic cells in the lamprey spinal cord.
Hyperpolarizing potentials were also observed and were attenuated by the glycinergic antagonist strychnine, whereas depolarizing responses were potentiated by strychnine.
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11691868 Neunlist M, Michel K, Reiche D, Dobreva G, Huber K, Schemann M: Glycine activates myenteric neurones in adult guinea-pigs. J Physiol. 2001 Nov 1;536(Pt 3):727-39.

Most glycine-sensitive neurones had ascending projections and were choline acetyltransferase immunoreactive.
Strychnine (300 nM) reversibly abolished the glycine-induced depolarisation and the Cl (-) channel blocker picrotoxin (100 microM) reduced the amplitude of the depolarisation by 55 +/- 5 %.
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