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Figure 1: Endocrine cells in human pancreatic islets express cholinergic markers. Figure 2: Human alpha cells express vAChT and ChAT. Figure 3: Isolated human islets secrete acetylcholine (ACh) in ...

The five muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) are prototypical class A G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). mAChRs regulate many fundamental functions of the central and peripheral nervous ...