Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors on culture glia cells

Brain Res. 1982 Jan 28;232(1):206-11. doi: 10.1016/0006-8993(82)90627-8.

Abstract

Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (76 fmol/mg protein) were detected on cultured glia cells (astroblasts) from embryonic chicken brain by specific [3H]quinuclidinylbenzilate (QNB) binding at physiological conditions. The QNB binding (Kd = 9.5 x 10(-11)) to the intact cells seems to be cooperative (nH = 1.98) as shown by graphical methods.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Binding, Competitive
  • Brain / metabolism*
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Chick Embryo
  • Kinetics
  • Neuroglia / metabolism*
  • Quinuclidinyl Benzilate / metabolism
  • Receptors, Cholinergic / metabolism*
  • Receptors, Muscarinic / metabolism*

Substances

  • Receptors, Cholinergic
  • Receptors, Muscarinic
  • Quinuclidinyl Benzilate