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Change in nicotinic receptor subtypes in temporal cortex of Alzheimer brains
1Department of Pharmacology, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
Neuroscience Letters
|April 12, 1988
Abstract:
Competition experiments using (-)-[3H]nicotine and unlabelled nicotine revealed both high and low affinity nicotinic binding sites in temporal cortex of control and Alzheimer (AD/SDAT) brains. A significant reduction in the proportion of high affinity nicotinic binding sites (-20%) and a parallel increase in the proportion of low affinity nicotinic binding sites was obtained in AD/SDAT brain cortex compared to control brain. Moreover, a marked decrease was observed in the affinity of the low affinity nicotinic binding sites in AD/SDAT.