title: Influence of atropine on carbachol dual effect on Ca2+ mobilization in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells.
abstract: The muscarinic receptor stimulated mobilisation of calcium ions in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells was measured as a function on carbachol and atropine concentrations. The combined application of this pair of muscarinic agonist and antagonist yielded a set of bell-shaped dose-response curves. In the presence of atropine the cell responses were smaller and the up-going phase of these relationships was shifted towards higher agonist concentration, while the down-going phase of these curves was not influenced by the antagonist. These results pointed to a similar mechanism of the receptor inhibition at high carbachol (agonist) concentrations and by atropine (antagonist).
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemical Physics, University of Tartu, Estonia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oras
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Järv
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Akerman
mesh_terms: D001285:Atropine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D002217:Carbachol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D018678:Cholinergic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000378:metabolism*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D018678:Cholinergic Agents; D001285:Atropine; D002217:Carbachol; D002118:Calcium