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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 49, 期 3, 页码 279-288出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(00)01109-4
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nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; cholinesterase inhibitor; allosterically potentiating ligand; galantamine; alpha 4 beta 2 nAChR; alpha 7/5HT-3 chimeric nAChR; physostigmine; codeine; rivastigmine; metrifonate; donepezil
Cholinesterase inhibitors are the only approved drug treatment for patients with mild to moderately severe Alzheimer's disease, interestingly the clinical potency of these drugs does not correlate well with their. activity as cholinesterase inhibitors, nor is their action, as short lived as would be expected from purely symptomatic treatment. A few cholinesterase inhibitors, including galantamine, produce beneficial effects even after drug treatment has been terminated. These effects assume modes of action other than mere esterase inhibition and are capable of inducing systemic changes. We have recently discovered a mechanism that could account at least in part, for the above-mentioned unexpected properties of some some cholinesterase inhibitors. We have Sound that a subgroup of cholinesterase inhibitors, including galantamine but excluding tacrine, directly interacts with nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, These compounds, named allosterically potentiating ligands, sensitize nicotinic receptors by increasing the probability of channel opening induced by acetylcholine and nicotinic agonists and by slowing down receptor desensitization. The allosterically potentiating ligand action, which is not necessarily associated with cholinesterase inhibition, has been demonstrated by whole-cell patch-clamp recordings to occur in natural murine and human neurons and in murine and human cell lines expressing various subtypes of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. (C) 2001 Society of Biological Psychiatry.
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