Acetylcholine is an autocrine or paracrine hormone synthesized and secreted by airway bronchial epithelial cells.

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Published in Endocrinology on February 05, 2004

Authors

Becky J Proskocil1, Harmanjatinder S Sekhon, Yibing Jia, Valentina Savchenko, Randy D Blakely, Jon Lindstrom, Eliot R Spindel

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1: Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Research Center, 505 Northwest 185th Avenue, Beaverton, Oregon 97006, USA.

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