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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
卷 599, 期 1-3, 页码 121-125出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2008.09.024
关键词
Healthy human colon; Tachykinin receptor; TACR1; TACR2; TACR3; mRNA
Tachykinins are a family of neuropeptides, involved in a variety of physiological and pathological processes occurring in the gastrointestinal tract. They act via three distinct types of receptors, tachykinin NK1, NK2, and NK3 receptors, which belong to the family of G protein-coupled receptors. The aim of the present study was to characterize, for the first time in the healthy human colon, the TACR(1), TACR(2) and TACR(3) mRNAs encoding the three different tachykinin receptors and to measure their relative expression by quantitative reverse transcription-PCR assay. Our results confirm the broad distribution of the tachykinin receptors but evidenced significant differences in the expression level of their respective mRNAs. A higher expression level of the TACR(2) mRNA alpha isoform, the gene encoding the functional tachykinin NK2 receptor, was observed in comparison to TACR(1) and TACR(3) mRNAs genes encoding for NK1 and NK3 receptors respectively. The prevalence of the TACR(2) mRNA alpha isoform strongly suggests a major involvement of tachykinin NK2 receptor in the regulation of human colonic functions. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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