#acetylcholine — Public Fediverse posts
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A Brain Chemical Helps Us Break Bad Habits. Involved in learning, memory, and decision-making, and it helps us abandon old habits and adapt. #BrainHealth #Neuroscience #Acetylcholine #MentalHealth #ScienceNews
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How Your Muscles Really Work 🧠💪
#muscles #neuroscience #movement #physiology #motorneurons #bicep #nervoussystem #GABA #acetylcholine #flexors #extensors -
Therapeutic potential for metabolic dysfunction-associated #steatohepatitis (#MASH)? This study shows that nicotinic #acetylcholine receptor (CHRNA2) signaling serves as a protective mechanism against extended metabolic stress in the #liver #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/46hnBmr
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Tradeoffs between rewards & costs involve the #dopaminergic system. @GJocham &co show that #dopamine & #acetylcholine have opposing effects on the modulation of specific components of #CostBenefit #DecisionMaking in humans #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/463uIik
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Mysteries of the #poisonous #amphibians
How do #frogs and other amphibians survive their own noxious weapons?
Like some other poisonous animals, they evolved resistance to #toxin. Researchers identified mutations in #genes for #acetylcholine receptor in poison frogs, then compared activity of receptor with and without mutation in frog eggs. Mutations slightly changed receptor’s shape, team found, making epibatidine bind less effectively and limiting its neurotoxic effects
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My journey with myasthenia gravis: a chronic autoimmune disease
Myasthenia gravis is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that causes weakness in the skeletal muscles, which are responsible for breathing and moving parts of the body, including the arms and legs.
Heather Finlay-Morreale is a pediatrician.
https://youtube.com/shorts/lXaOcmzDG6Q
Listen here: https://kevinmd.com/podcast
#myastheniagravis #muscleweakness #autoimmune #neuromuscular #acetylcholine #myastheniccrisis #breathing
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What modulates the output of #cortical #parvalbumin-positive #neurons in the mature #brain?
Kai-Wen He and colleagues reveal rhythmic time- and sleep-dependent regulation via #synaptic M1 #acetylcholine receptors in the mouse primary visual cortex