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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 30.
Published in final edited form as: Inflamm Res. 2012 Jul 10;61(9):915–926. doi: 10.1007/s00011-012-0513-z

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Diagram demonstrating the mechanism of acetylcholine synthesis, release, action and breakdown at a cholinergic nerve terminal. ACh Acetylcholine, ChAT choline acetyltransferase, CHT1 highaffinity choline transporter-1, VAChT vesicular ACh transporter, AChE acetylcholinesterase, BChE butyrylcholinesterase, mAChR muscarinic receptors and nAChR nicotinic receptors (Adapted from Kummer et al. [72])