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17337281

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
24-25
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-6-4
pubmed:abstractText
Acetylcholine (ACh) and its receptors play a crucial role in bladder physiology. Here, we investigated the presence of muscarinic receptor subtypes (MR) and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) alpha-subunits in the mouse urothelium by RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry. With RT-PCR, we detected mRNAs coding for all of the five different MR subtypes and for the nicotinic receptor subunits alpha2, alpha4, alpha5, alpha6, alpha7, alpha9 and alpha10, whereas the alpha3-subunit was not expressed. Using immunohistochemistry, we localised a panel of acetylcholine receptors in the different layers of the murine bladder urothelium, with predominant appearance in the basal plasma membrane of the basal cell layer and in the apical membrane of the umbrella cells. M2R and subunit alpha9 were observed exclusively in the umbrella cells, whereas the MR subtypes 3-5 and the nAChR subunits alpha4, alpha7 and alpha10 were also detected in the intermediate and basal cell layers. The subunit alpha5 was localised only in the basal cell layer. In conclusion, the murine urothelium expresses multiple cholinergic receptors, including several subtypes of both MR and nAChR, which are differentially distributed among the urothelial cell types. Since these receptors have different electrophysiological and pharmacological properties, and therefore are considered to be responsible for different cellular responses to ACh, this differential distribution is expected to confer cell type-specificity of cholinergic regulation in the bladder urothelium.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0024-3205
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
30
pubmed:volume
80
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2308-13
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Expression of muscarinic and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the mouse urothelium.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Justus-Liebig-University, Aulweg 123, 35385 Giessen, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't