This review outlines the mechanisms underlying the interaction between the nervous and immune systems of the host in response to an immune challenge. The main focus is the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway, which we recently described as a novel function of the efferent vagus nerve. This pathway plays a critical role in controlling the inflammatory response through interaction with peripher...

Background: Gastric lavage (GL) is one of the most commonly used decontamination method for cholinergic insecticide ingestion in developing countries despite lack of supporting evidence. This study was designed to evaluate the outcome of patients with cholinergic insecticide poisoning treated with GL in regards to timing and frequency of the procedure. Methods: In this prospective observational...

Theophylline has been reported to inhibit excitatory noncholinergic but not cholinergic-neurotransmission in guinea-pig bronchi. As theophylline might exert this effect through an inhibition of phosphodiesterases (PDE), and since many types of PDE have now been described, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of three specific inhibitors of PDE on the electrical field stimulation...

ABSTRACT Objective: Francisella tularensis is an intracellular pathogen causing tularemia disease. Immune system action against tularemia is limited due to lipopolysaccharide covering bacterial cell. Cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway is a link between parasympathetic nervous system and macrophage assisted immunity. Asoxime (also known as HI-6) is a compound implicated in regulation of acety...

Acetylcholine (ACh) was viewed as the “vagusstoff” after Loewi`s experiment with the frog heart [1]. In 1936 Otto Loewi, and Henry Dale were recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, by their contribution for the acetylcholine discover as a neurotransmitter [1]. So, ACh was regarded as a neurotransmitter during several decades [2]. After that it was evidenced a widespread expres...

Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized pathologically by cholinergic deficits, amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, gliosis, and neuronal and synaptic loss. The primary therapeutic approach that has arisen from the pathological analysis of AD brain has been cholinergic augmentation by cholinesterase inhibitors, which modestly improve cognitive function. Research on the underlying pathophy...

Liang-Ge-San (LGS) is a classic formula in traditional Chinese medicine, which is widely used to treat acute lung injury (ALI), pharyngitis and amygdalitis in clinic. However, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly defined. In this study, we discovered that LGS exerted potent anti-inflammatory effects in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced inflammation. We found that LGS significantly depressed t...

background: gastric lavage (gl) is one of the most commonly used decontamination method for cholinergic insecticide ingestion in developing countries despite lack of supporting evidence. this study was designed to evaluate the outcome of patients with cholinergic insecticide poisoning treated with gl in regards to timing and frequency of the procedure. methods: in this prospective observational...

Studying the functioning of various body systems in different vertebrates is one key tasks comparative physiology. Teleost fishes are a large group vertebrates; however, mechanisms their digestive tract poorly understood and known mainly for such model object as Danio rerio. The aim this work was to characterize participation subtypes M-cholinergic receptors Rho-kinase enzyme cholinergic contra...

BACKGROUND The basal forebrain is a series of nuclei that provides cholinergic input to much of the forebrain. The most posterior of these nuclei, nucleus basalis, provides cholinergic drive to neocortex and is involved in arousal and attention. The physiological properties of neurons in anterior basal forebrain nuclei, including medial septum, the diagonal band of Broca and substantia innomina...