Nicotine addiction : a review [PDF]
, 2013 Nicotine, the major psychoactive compound in tobacco, acts as a potent addictive drug in humans. The addictive nature of nicotine leads to more than 6 million deaths a year.
Di Giovanni, Giuseppe, Vella, Jacob
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Ingestion of A Common Plant’s Leaves Leads to Acute Respiratory Arrest and Paralysis: A Case Report
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2020 Background: Nicotiana glauca is a plant known to cause acute toxicity upon ingestion or dermal exposure due to the nicotinic alkaloid, anabasine. Nicotinic alkaloids cause toxicity by acting as agonists on nicotinic-type acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs).
Breelan M. Kear +4 more
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Nicotine inhibits memory CTL programming. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Nicotine is the main tobacco component responsible for tobacco addiction and is used extensively in smoking and smoking cessation therapies. However, little is known about its effects on the immune system.
Zhifeng Sun +5 more
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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and epilepsy
Pharmacological Research, 2023 Despite recent advances in understanding the causes of epilepsy, especially the genetic, comprehending the biological mechanisms that lead to the epileptic phenotype remains difficult.
Andrea Becchetti +3 more
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Interactions between the neuromodulatory systems and the amygdala: exploratory survey using the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas. [PDF]
, 2013 Neuromodulatory systems originate in nuclei localized in the subcortical region of the brain and control fundamental behaviors by interacting with many areas of the central nervous system.
Krichmar, Jeffrey L, Zaldivar, Andrew
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The distribution of charged amino acid residues and the Ca(2+) permeability of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: a predictive model [PDF]
, 2017 Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are cation-selective ligand-gated ion channels exhibiting variable Ca(2+) permeability depending on their subunit composition.
Fucile, Sergio
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Nicotinic acid receptor abnormalities in human skin cancer: implications for a role in epidermal differentiation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Chronic UV skin exposure leads to epidermal differentiation defects in humans that can be largely restored by pharmacological doses of nicotinic acid. Nicotinic acid has been identified as a ligand for the human G-protein-coupled receptors GPR109A and ...
Yira Bermudez +5 more
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α9-Containing Nicotinic Receptors in Cancer
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2022 Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors containing the α9 or the α9 and α10 subunits are expressed in various extra-neuronal tissues. Moreover, most cancer cells and tissues highly express α9-containing receptors, and a number of studies have shown ...
Susanna Pucci +6 more
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Trihexyphenidyl rescues the deficit in dopamine neurotransmission in a mouse model of DYT1 dystonia
Neurobiology of Disease, 2019 Trihexyphenidyl, a nonselective muscarinic receptor antagonist, is the small molecule drug of choice for the treatment of DYT1 dystonia, but it is poorly tolerated due to significant side effects.
Anthony M. Downs +4 more
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Intracellular mechanisms underlying the nicotinic enhancement of LTP in the rat dentate gyrus [PDF]
, 2008 We have previously shown that activation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) enhanced long-term potentiation (LTP) in the rat dentate gyrus in vitro via activation of α7 nAChR. In the present studies, mechanisms underlying the acute and chronic
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