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Critical metabolic roles of β-cell M3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors.
Life sciences - 27 Nov 2012
Ruiz de Azua Inigo, Gautam Dinesh, Jain Shalini, Guettier Jean-Marc, Wess Jürgen
Abstract excerpt
Muscarinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptors (mAChRs; M(1)-M(5)) regulate the activity of an extraordinarily large number of important physiological processes. We and others previously demonstrated that pancreatic β-cells are endowed with M(3) mAChRs which are linked to G proteins of the G(q) family. The activation of these receptors by ACh or other muscarinic agonists leads to the augmentation of glucose-induced...
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