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Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics ›› 2005, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (11): 1304-1308.

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Effects of non-neuronal AChRs on proliferation of splenocytes of mice

WEN Xiao-ming1,2, ZHANG Ying-li2, LIN Xi-min1, GUO Shun-xing1, WANG Hai2   

  1. 1Institute of Medicinal Plant Development,CAMS & PUMC,Beijing 100094,China;
    2Institute of Pharmacology and Toxi-cology,Academy of Military Medical Sciences,Beijing 100850,China
  • Received:2005-09-29 Revised:2005-10-31 Online:2005-11-26 Published:2020-11-12

Abstract: AIM: To examine the effects of non-neu-ronal AChRs on the proliferation of splenocytes.METHODS: The effects of AChRs agonist carbachol on the prolif-eration of mice splenocytes stimulated by concanavalin measured by MTT reduction assay in vitro.RESULTS: The splenocytes responded to carbachol(in the range of 10-11-10-9mol·L-1and 10-5-10-4mol·L-1)byin-creased proliferation which were blocked by the muscarin-ic antagonist atropine(10-7mol·L-1).In contrast,car-bachol(10-7-10-6mol·L-1)produced diminished pro-liferation,an effect which were blocked by the nAChRs antagonist mecamylamine(10-7mol·L-1).It suggests that mAChRs was sensitive to 10-11-10-9mol·L-1and 10-5-10-4mol·L-1carbachol,resulting in increasing proliferation and nAChRs responses to 10-7~ 10-6mol·L-1carbachol leading to proliferation inhibition.CONCLUSION: Carbachol can elicit two different ef-fects according to different concentrations in splenocytes via non-neuronal mAChRs or nAChRs.

Key words: non-neuronal, ACh receptors, lympho-cytes, proliferation, carbachol

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