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The muscarinic cholinergic innervation of the rat gastric mucosa was investigated by localizing the muscarinic receptors using a tritiated muscarinic antagonist, pirenzepine. Radioautography was performed by freeze drying stomach tissue, which was then embedded in Epon and wet sectioned with ethylene glycol, and dry mounting on emulsion film by the wire-loop method to prevent loss of the labelled substance during fixation and the radioautographic procedure. Light and electron microscopy showed that the specific pirenzepine-binding sites were localized predominantly on parietal cells, chief cells and perivascular plexuses. Analysis of the grain distribution on parietal cells revealed that the silver grains corresponding to the pirenzepine-binding sites were mainly on the basolateral plasma membrane. On the other hand, the surface mucous or mucous neck cells had few pirenzepine-binding sites.
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Nakamura, M., Oda, M., Yonei, Y. et al. Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in rat gastric mucosa. Histochemistry 83, 479–487 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00492448
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