Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor 2 (m-AChR-2)
A G protein-coupled acetylcholine receptor
References SySy m-AChR-2 antibodies
Duttaroy A, Gomeza J, Gan JW, Siddiqui N, Basile AS, Harman WD, Smith PL, Felder CC, Levey AI & Wess J (2002). Evaluation of muscarinic agonist-induced analgesia in muscarinic acetylcholine receptor knockout mice. Molecular Pharmacology 62: 1084-93. IHCBernard V, Laribi O, Levey AI & Bloch B (1998). Subcellular redistribution of m2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in striatal interneurons in vivo after acute cholinergic stimulation. Journal of Neuroscience 18): 10207-18. IHC
Levey AI, Edmunds SM, Hersch SM, Wiley RG & Heilman CJ (1995). Light and electron microscopic study of m2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor in the basal forebrain of the rat. Journal of Comparative Neurology 351: 339-56. IHC
General references m-AChR-2
Volpicelli-Daley LA, Hrabovska A, Duysen EG, Ferguson SM, Blakely RD, Lockridge O & Levey AI (2003). Altered striatal function and muscarinic cholinergic receptors in acetylcholinesterase knockout mice. Molecular Pharmacology 64: 1309-16.Zhang W, Basile AS, Gomeza J, Volpicelli LA, Levey AI & Wess J (2002). Characterization of central inhibitory muscarinic autoreceptors by the use of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor knock-out mice. Journal of Neuroscience 22: 1709-17.
Mrzljak L, Levey AI & Goldman-Rakic PS (1993). Association of m1 and m2 muscarinic receptor proteins with asymmetric synapses in the primate cerebral cortex: morphological evidence for cholinergic modulation of excitatory neurotransmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 90: 5194-8.
