Protein Information

Name acetylcholine receptor (protein family or complex)
Synonyms Acetylcholine receptor; Acetylcholine receptors

Compound Information

Name rotenone
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18803299 Takeuchi H, Yanagida T, Inden M, Takata K, Kitamura Y, Yamakawa K, Sawada H, Izumi Y, Yamamoto N, Kihara T, Uemura K, Inoue H, Taniguchi T, Akaike A, Takahashi R, Shimohama S: Nicotinic receptor stimulation protects nigral dopaminergic neurons in rotenone-induced Parkinson's disease models. J Neurosci Res. 2009 Feb;87(2):576-85.

These results suggest that the rotenone mouse model may be useful for assessing candidate antiparkinson agents, and that nAChR (nicotinic acetylcholine receptor) stimulation can protect DA neurons against degeneration.
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19252273 Shimohama S: Nicotinic receptor-mediated neuroprotection in neurodegenerative disease models. Biol Pharm Bull. 2009 Mar;32(3):332-6.

This review article presents evidence for nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR)-mediated protection and the signal transduction involved in this mechanism.
Up-regulation of Bcl-2 and Bcl-x could prevent cells from neuronal death induced by beta-amyloid (Abeta), glutamate and rotenone.
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17540012 Egea J, Rosa AO, Cuadrado A, Garcia AG, Lopez MG: Nicotinic receptor activation by epibatidine induces heme oxygenase-1 and protects chromaffin cells against oxidative stress. J Neurochem. 2007 Sep;102(6):1842-52. Epub 2007 Jun 1.

Activation of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) provides neuroprotection against different toxic stimuli that often lead to overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and cell death.
In this context, we investigated here if the exposure of bovine chromaffin cells to the potent nAChR agonist epibatidine protected against rotenone (30 micromol/L) plus oligomycin (10 micromol/L) (rot/oligo) toxicity, an in vitro model of mitochondrial ROS production.
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