acetylcholine
IPA: ʌsɛtʌɫkˈoʊɫin
noun
- (biochemistry) A neurotransmitter in humans and other animals. It is an ester of acetic acid and choline with chemical formula CH₃COOCH₂CH₂N⁺(CH₃)₃.
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Examples of "acetylcholine" in Sentences
- Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.
- Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor.
- Vesicular acetylcholine transporter.
- Acetylcholine is a facilitator of memory formation.
- A sensitive immunoassay for acetylcholine is described.
- Acetylcholine precursors help create more acetylcholine.
- The most common neurotransmitter is called acetylcholine.
- Acetylcholine is released from the afferent nerve endings.
- Acetylcholine is known to promote wakefulness in the basal forebrain.
- Nicotinic receptors use a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine, too.
- Acetylcholine and histamine are important in the vestibular apparatus.
- Acetylcholine binds to a post synaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.
- Reduces the natural relaxation and anti-inflammatory calming, memory-enhancing neurotransmitter called acetylcholine.
- Eat an apple or two: Apples stimulate production of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which is what the Alzheimer's drug Aricept also does, say University of Massachusetts researchers.
- In a sympathetic ganglion, the synaptic junctions, at which the acetylcholine is released by the incident preganglionic impulses, form a large part of the small amount of tissue perfused.
- Little did I suspect then what I was able to show many years later - namely, that relaxation of arteries by acetylcholine is strictly endothelium-dependent, and that my method of preparing the strips inadvertently resulted in the mechanical removal of all the endothelial cells.
- Sir Bernard Katz 'discoveries concerning the mechanism for the release of the transmitter acetylcholine from the nerve terminals at the nerve-muscle junction, under the influence of the nerve impulses, are fundamental not only for the understanding of the so-called cholinergic transmission, but are also of primary importance for our knowledge about the synaptic transmission between the nerve cells in the central nervous system.