Two types of axonal muscarinic acetylcholine receptors mediate formation of saliva cocktail in the tick Ixodes ricinus

Abstract Hard ticks depend upon an ability to precisely and dynamically regulate their saliva to successfully evade host haemostatic and immune defences during extended blood feeding. Although pilocarpine, an exogenous muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) agonist, can stimulate salivation exper...

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Principais autores:	Cáinà Nìng, James J. Valdés, Lourdes Mateos-Hernández, Sabine Rakotobe, Lianet Abuin-Denis, Nadia Haddad, Lívia Šofranková, Mirko Slovák, Khalid Boussaine, Alison Cartereau, Emiliane Taillebois, Houssam Attoui, Helena Frantová, Veronika Urbanová, Tereza Kozelková, Filip Dyčka, Petr Kopáček, Ondřej Hajdušek, Radek Šíma, Jiří Týč, Tomáš Bílý, Martina Tesařová, Marie Vancová, Jan Perner, Steeve H. Thany, Ladislav Šimo
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	Nature Portfolio 2026-01-01
coleção:	Nature Communications
Acesso em linha:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-68654-3
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