Multiple roles for cholinergic signaling in pancreatic diseases.

Cholinergic nerves are widely distributed throughout the human body and participate in various physiological activities, including sensory, motor, and visceral activities, through cholinergic signaling. Cholinergic signaling plays an important role in pancreatic exocrine secretion. A large number of studies have found that cholinergic signaling overstimulates pancreatic acinar cells through muscarinic receptors, participates in the onset of pancreatic diseases such as acute pancreatitis and chronic pancreatitis, and can also inhibit the progression of pancreatic cancer.

Effects of rosuvastatin correlated with the down-regulation of CYP4A1 in spontaneously hypertensive rats.

The effects of long-term rosuvastatin treatment on the regulation of cytochrome P450 (CYP) 4A1 expression and vascular homeostasis of spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) are still unknown. In this study SHRs were randomly divided into three groups (n=10 per group): SHR group, H-Rv group (rosuvastatin 2.5 mg·kg(-1)·d(-1)), L-Rv group (rosuvastatin 0.