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...genetic tests, determination of serum acetylcholine receptor antibodies. Acetylcholine esterase inhibitor drugs are used in treatment...myasthenic syndrome - Electromyography - Acetylcholine receptor antibody. INTRODUCTION Congenital... |
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Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping of Genome Regions Controlling Permethrin...
...the activity of the enzyme acetylcholine esterase at nerve synapses...of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and preventing nerve transmission...eventually paralysis. Both acetylcholine esterase inhibitors and axonic poisons...resistance associated with esterases (Flores et al. 2005... |
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...by combining with a residue of serine in the active site of acetylcholine esterase, inhibiting the enzyme completely. Without the esterase activity that usually destroys acetylcholine as soon as it performs its function, dangerously high levels... |
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Neurobehavioral Deficits and Increased Blood Pressure in School-Age Children...
...of organophosphate metabolites and erythrocyte acetylcholine esterase activity. RESULTS: Of 84 eligible participants...may also be affected (Walker et al. 2001). Acetylcholine is a major synaptic transmitter substance that... |
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Antiandrogenic Activity and Metabolism of the Organophosphorus Pesticide...
...numerous crops and also as an ectoparasiticide for farm animals (Roberts and Hutson 1999). Fenthion inhibits acetylcholine esterase and is thought to be a safe pesticide because it is not easily converted to the possibly highly toxic oxon derivative... |
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Phorate Exposure and Incidence of Cancer in the Agricultural Health Study
...structure, and must be converted in the body to their bioactive, neurotoxic oxon forms, which irreversibly inhibit acetylcholine esterase by phosphorylating a serine hydroxyl group in the active site of the enzyme (Pope 1999; Sultatos 1994). Little... |
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The Use of Antipsychotics for Dementia
...distress or risk to those living or working with the patient" (1). Alternative treatments, pharmacological (acetylcholine esterase inhibitors, mementine, benzodiazepines, antiepileptic drugs, SSRIs and beta blockers) and non-pharmacological... |
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Sandoz Researching Four Drugs to Treat Alzheimer's Disease
...Alzheimer's disease " Acetylcholine, a prevalent neurotransmitter...inhibitor. Acetylcholin-esterase, he indicated...enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine; inhibiting this enzyme...stores of available acetylcholine. Mino noted that SDZ... |
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Biomarkers of Chlorpyrifos Exposure and Effect in Egyptian Cotton Field Workers
...effects via inhibition of ([beta]-esterases, including butyrylcholinesterase...mediates the inhibition of these [beta]-esterases (Amitai et al. 1998). The inhibition...neurotoxicity. AChE inhibition increases acetylcholine in both central and peripheral cholinergic... |
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Molecule of the Month: From Nazis to Gnats Via the Gulf War
...acetylcholinesterase, which is needed to cancel the chemical messenger, acetylcholine, after it has done its job of transmitting a signal across...inhibition of another enzyme in nerves, neuropathy target esterase (NTE), and this is now used as a marker to identify harmful... |
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