Effects of Nicotine on Biological Systems II
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel
Birkhäuser
1995, 1995
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1995 |
| Series: | Advances in Pharmacological Sciences
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I: Overview
- Current controversies in nicotine research
- Acute biological effects of nicotine and its metabolites
- Involvement of nicotine and its metabolites in the pathology of smoking-related diseases: Facts and hypotheses
- II. Structure and function of nicotinic receptors
- A cyclophilin-dependent mechanism for ?7 neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor maturation
- ?-Bungarotoxin receptor subtypes
- Neuronal nicotinic receptor structure and function
- Determinants regulating neuronal nicotinic receptor function
- Expression, function, and regulation of neuronal acetylcholine receptors containing the ?7 gene product
- III. Nicotinic receptor regulation and tolerance
- Biochemical measures of nicotinic receptor desensitization
- The role of desensitization in CNS nicotinic receptor function
- Presynaptic nicotinic autoreceptors and heteroreceptors in the CNS
- Regulation of neuronal nicotinic receptors in primary cultures
- Smoking-induced alterations in brain electrical profiles: Normalization or enhancement?
- Nicotine and cognitive effects
- Evidence that nicotine is addictive
- Self-administered nicotine acts through the ventral tegmental area: Implications for drug reinforcement mechanisms
- Desensitisation of the stimulatory effects of nicotine on dopamine secretion in the mesolimbic system of the rat
- Nicotine as a discriminative stimulus: Individual variability to acute tolerance and the role of receptor desensitization
- Behavioral and biochemical analysis of the dependence properties of nicotine
- Nicotine boost per cigarette as the controlling factor of intake regulation by smokers
- There is more to smoking than the CNS effects of nicotine
- Pharmacological determinants of cigarette smoking
- The functional conception of nicotine use
- Nicotine is addictive: The issue of free choice
- Differentiating habits and addictions: The evidence that nicotine is not ‘addictive’
- Measuring changes in mesolimbic dopamine and related substances in response to systemic nicotine using in vivo electrochemistry
- Effect of nicotine and cotinine on NNK metabolism in rats
- Concluding Remarks: The future of nicotine-containing products
- Author Index
- Differences in response to nicotine are determined by genetic factors
- VI: Nicotine and human diseases
- Relationship between smoking, nicotine and ulcerative colitis
- Transdermal nicotine in Tourette’s syndrome
- Nicotine and neuropsychiatric disorders: Schizophrenia
- Nicotinic receptors and the pathophysiology of schizophrenia
- The epidemiology of cigarette smoking and Parkinson’s disease
- Nicotine and animal models of Parkinson’s disease
- Nicotine effects on memory performance
- Possible mechanisms underlying beneficial effects of nicotine on cognitive function
- Nicotinic modulation of cognitive functioning in humans
- Invited Contributions
- Distribution of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit immunoreactivities on thesurface of chick ciliary ganglion neurons
- Autoradiographic distribution of nicotinic receptor sites labelled with [3H]cytisine in the human brain
- Epibatidine
- Conditioned tolerance to nicotine in rats
- IV: Neuronal, trophic and endocrine effects of nicotine
- Developmental effects of nicotine
- Presynaptic nicotine-gated channels potentiate transmission at ACh and glutamate-mediated synapses
- Electrophysiology of neuronal nicotinic receptors in the CNS
- Factors controlling nicotinic acetylcholine receptor expression on rat sympathetic neurons
- Growth related role for the nicotinic ?-bungarotoxin receptor
- Mechanisms of nicotine stimulated cell proliferation in normal and neoplastic neuro-endocrine lung cells
- Activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis by nicotine: Neurochemical and neuroanatomical substrates
- Regulation of proenkephalin gene expression in bovine adrenal medullary chromaffin cells by nicotine
- Effects of nicotine on thromboxane and leukotriene synthesis incellular systems
- V: Nicotine and smoking: Current controversies