Figure 1: Endocrine cells in human pancreatic islets express cholinergic markers. Figure 2: Human alpha cells express vAChT and ChAT. Figure 3: Isolated human islets secrete acetylcholine (ACh) in ...

All of sports performance is about the ‘R to R’ interval: recognize and react,” noted Dr. Peter Gorman, father of the sports heart rate monitor and retired Director of Athlete Performance Initiatives ...

Acetylcholine regulates blood flow, but the source of blood acetylcholine has been unclear. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that certain T cells in human blood can produce ...

Acetylcholine (ACh) is a neuromodulator with a central role in aversive learning - rapid conditioning to unpleasant smell, taste, or touch. These learning functions play out in cells called D2 ...

Karolinska Institutet researchers identified dopamine-acetylcholine disruptions in the basal ganglia as key contributors to autism-related behavioral inflexibility. Using advanced techniques like ...

In a new study, a group of researchers, led by Dr. Joshua Goldberg from the Hebrew University, describe a new kind of neurochemical wave in the brain. Their research, published in Nature ...

How we process sensory stimuli from the world around us is intricately modulated so that we sense what we want and discard the rest to avoid overtaxing our neural systems. A new study reports, ...

Antibiotics, a cornerstone of modern medicine, are revealed to have an influence beyond fighting infections. A recent study ...

Subtle changes in neurotransmission that occur during Alzheimer’s disease have been tough to track in living people. A new positron emission tomography tracer may change that. In the January 12 ...