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complex(a(CHEBI:"amyloid-beta polypeptide 42"), p(HGNC:CHRNA7)) decreases act(a(MESH:Bungarotoxins)) View Subject | View Object

However, it has been shown that Abeta1–42 binds with high affinity to alpha7 nAChRs in several different neuronal tissues (Wang et al., 2000a) and displaces alpha-bungarotoxin binding (Wang et al., 2000a,b) and, rather than inhibiting receptor internalization, alpha-bungarotoxin enhances internalization of heterologously expressed nAChRs (Kumari et al., 2008). PubMed:19293145

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a(MESH:Bungarotoxins) decreases bp(GO:"neuromuscular synaptic transmission") View Subject | View Object

Third, Chen-Yuan Lee, a Taiwanese pharmacologist, had found that a snake venom toxin, 􏰂-bungarotoxin (􏰂-BGT), spe- cifically blocks in vivo neuromuscular transmission in high ver- tebrates at the postsynaptic level without interacting with AChE PubMed:23038257

a(MESH:Bungarotoxins) decreases act(a(CHEBI:"amyloid-beta")) View Subject | View Object

It is noteworthy that this internalization was blocked by alpha-bungarotoxin, which may indicate that alpha-bungarotoxin either inhibits binding of Abeta to the alpha7 receptor (and therefore that Abeta toxicity results from binding of Abeta to alpha7 nAChRs) or directly inhibits alpha7 nAChR internalization. PubMed:19293145

a(MESH:Bungarotoxins) decreases complex(a(CHEBI:"amyloid-beta"), p(HGNC:CHRNA7)) View Subject | View Object

It is noteworthy that this internalization was blocked by alpha-bungarotoxin, which may indicate that alpha-bungarotoxin either inhibits binding of Abeta to the alpha7 receptor (and therefore that Abeta toxicity results from binding of Abeta to alpha7 nAChRs) or directly inhibits alpha7 nAChR internalization. PubMed:19293145

act(a(MESH:Bungarotoxins)) decreases p(HGNC:MAPT, pmod(Ph)) View Subject | View Object

It is also noteworthy that Abeta-induced tau protein phosphorylation in PC12 cells is inhibited not only by alpha7 agonists, as would be predicted from the role of alpha7 nAChRs in neuroprotection, but also by alpha-bungarotoxin (Hu et al., 2008), as might be predicted if the competition by alpha-bungarotoxin for the Abeta site blocked a direct action of Abeta on nAChRs. It is therefore possible that the toxicity of Abeta is mediated, at least in part, through a direct physical interaction between Abeta and nAChRs. PubMed:19293145

a(MESH:Bungarotoxins) decreases act(a(MESH:"Electric Organ")) View Subject | View Object

alpha􏰂-BGT blocked the electroplaque’s electrical response in vivo and the microsac’s ion flux response to nicotinic agonists in vitro; alpha􏰂-BGT also blocked the binding of radioactive decamethonium to the detergent extract PubMed:23038257

a(MESH:Bungarotoxins) decreases act(a(CHEBI:decamethonium)) View Subject | View Object

alpha􏰂-BGT blocked the electroplaque’s electrical response in vivo and the microsac’s ion flux response to nicotinic agonists in vitro; alpha􏰂-BGT also blocked the binding of radioactive decamethonium to the detergent extract PubMed:23038257

a(MESH:Bungarotoxins) decreases complex(a(CHEBI:"amyloid-beta"), a(MESH:"alpha7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor")) View Subject | View Object

Subsequently, competition studies performed by incubating alpha7 nAChRs with Abeta and alpha-Bungarotoxin showed that the application of alpha-Bungarotoxin is able to decrease the amount of Abeta bound to alpha7 nAChRs, suggesting that both molecules compete for the same ligand binding domain (Wang et al., 2000b) PubMed:25514383

a(MESH:Bungarotoxins) decreases complex(a(CHEBI:epibatidine), a(MESH:"alpha7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor")) View Subject | View Object

Strikingly, we found that alpha-bungarotoxin did not completely displace [3H]epibatidine binding to alpha7 receptors with NACHO (Figure 3B) PubMed:28445721

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