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Caffeine, adenosine receptors, and synaptic plasticity
Costenla, Ana Rita; Cunha, Rodrigo A.; Mendonça, Alexandre deCopyright ©2012 IOS Press All rights reserved. ; Few studies to date have looked at the effects of caffeine on synaptic plasticity, and those that did used very high concentrations of caffeine, whereas the brain concentrations attained by regular coffee consumption in humans should be in the low micromolar range, where caffeine exerts pharmacological actions mainly by antagonizing adenosine receptors. Accordin...
Adenosine A3 receptors in the rat hippocampus: Lack of interaction with A1 rece...
Lopes, Luísa V.; Rebola, Nelson; Costenla, Ana Rita; Halldner, Linda; Jacobson, Marlene A.; Oliveira, Catarina R.; Richardson, Peter J.Adenosine acts as a neuromodulator in the hippocampus essentially through activation of inhibitory A1 receptors. Using single-cell PCR analysis, we found that CA1 pyramidal cells coexpress A1 receptor mRNA together with that of another adenosine receptor, the A3 receptor. As occurs for the A1 receptor, Western blot analysis indicated that the A3 receptor is also located in hippocampal nerve terminals. However, ...
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