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Edson X. Albuquerque

Researcher at University of Maryland, Baltimore

Publications -  268
Citations -  18565

Edson X. Albuquerque is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, Baltimore. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nicotinic agonist & Acetylcholine. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 268 publications receiving 17395 citations. Previous affiliations of Edson X. Albuquerque include Federal University of Rio de Janeiro & National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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Developmental neurotoxicity of the organophosphorus insecticide chlorpyrifos: from clinical findings to preclinical models and potential mechanisms.

TL;DR: The primary objectives of this article are to address the short‐ and long‐term neurological issues that have been associated with acute and subacute exposures of humans to OP insecticides, especially early in life, and to discuss the translational relevance of animal models of developmental exposure to OP Insecticides.
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Nicotinic Receptor Function in the Mammalian Central Nervous Systema

TL;DR: The findings can be summarized as follows: hippocampal neurons express at least three subtypes of CNS nAChRs, and there is an ACh-insensitive site on neuronal and nonneuronal nA ChRs through which the receptor channel can be activated.
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Methyllycaconitine and (+)-anatoxin-a differentiate between nicotinic receptors in vertebrate and invertebrate nervous systems

TL;DR: The data suggest that (+)‐anatoxin‐a is a useful probe for the high‐affinity nicotine‐binding receptor in vertebrate brain, whereas MLA is a preferential probe for a subclass of receptor that binds α‐bungarotoxin.
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Effective countermeasure against poisoning by organophosphorus insecticides and nerve agents

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that galantamine, a reversible and centrally acting AChE inhibitor approved for treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease, protects guinea pigs from the acute toxicity of lethal doses of the nerve agents soman and sarin, and of paraoxon, the active metabolite of the insecticide parathion.
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Galantamine is an allosterically potentiating ligand of the human alpha4/beta2 nAChR.

TL;DR: The same action of galantamine is demonstrated on the most abundant nAChR in the human brain, the α4/β2 subtype, as is shown by the absence of this effect for other therapeutically applied AChE inhibitors including tacrine, metrifonate, rivastigmine and donepezil.