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Differential impact of genetically modulated choline transporter expression on the release of endogenous versus newly synthesized acetylcholine.
Neurochemistry international - 1 Sept 2016
Iwamoto Hideki, Calcutt M Wade, Blakely Randy D
Abstract excerpt
The efficient import of choline into cholinergic nerve terminals by the presynaptic, high-affinity choline transporter (CHT, SLC5A7) dictates the capacity for acetylcholine (ACh) synthesis and release. Tissue levels of ACh are significantly reduced in mice heterozygous for a loss of function mutation in Slc5a7 (HET, CHT(+/-)), but significantly elevated in overexpressing, Slc5a7 BAC-transgenic mice (BAC). Since...
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