Based on his team's new findings, Salehi said the ideal medication regimen for improving cognition in Down syndrome will likely improve both norepinephrine and acetylcholine signals.

When presented with a host of different neurotransmitters, including dopamine, glutamate, or acetylcholine, the astrocytes shrugged. However, when briefly pre-exposed to tyramine or octopamine—the fly ...

Norepinephrine is a major neurotransmitter of the sympathetic nervous system, or "fight or flight" branch of the ANS, while acetylcholine is produced by the parasympathetic nervous system, or ...

In summary, drugs that enhance the function of norepinephrine or serotonin (and probably dopamine) neurons, drugs that impair the function of acetylcholine neurons, highly unpleasant memories ...

Neurotrophins regulate sympathetic neuron cotransmission by modulating the activity-dependent release of norepinephrine and acetylcholine. Nerve growth factor promotes excitatory noradrenergic ...

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 ...