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Noradrenergic regulation of cholinergic differentiation.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 10 Jun 1994
Habecker B A, Landis S C
Abstract excerpt
When the sympathetic nerves that innervate rat sweat glands reach their targets, they are induced to switch from using norepinephrine as their neurotransmitter to acetylcholine. Catecholamines (such as norepinephrine) released by nerves growing to the sweat gland induce this phenotypic conversion by stimulating production of a cholinergic differentiation factor [sweat gland factor (SGF)] by gland cells. Here,...
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