Peripheral blood lymphocyte muscarinic cholinergic receptors in airway hyperresponsiveness: a marker of cholinergic dysfunction?
1998
1 Muscarinic cholinergic receptors were assayed in human peripheral blood lymphocytes of healthy control and airway hyperresponsive subjects using a radioligand binding assay technique and the muscarinic cholinergic receptor antagonist [3H]-quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB) as a radioligand. Subjects investigated were divided in four different groups based on threshold responses to methacholine inhaled as challenge test.
2 [3H]-QNB was bound to human peripheral blood lymphocytes in a manner consistent with the labelling of muscarinic cholinergic receptors. Dissociation constant (Kd) values of [3H]-QNB binding were similar in the different groups examined, whereas maximum density of binding sites (Bmax) was increased in airway hyperresponsive subjects in comparison with healthy controls.
3 The above findings indicate that the density of muscarinic cholinergic receptors is increased in peripheral blood lymphocytes of airway hyperresponsive subjects.
4 This suggests that airway hyperresponsiveness is associated with cholinergic hyperreactivity and is probably a systemic cholinergic dysfunction since it is accompanied by changes in the density of muscarinic cholinergic receptors expressed by peripheral blood lymphocytes.
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