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Nicotine may have more profound impact than previously thought
Conversely, the data could also help scientists develop better treatments for various diseases. Pharmaceutical companies rely on basic research to identify new cellular interactions that can, in turn,...
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Read moreNicotine receptors found for the first time in the mouth open the door to new treatments
A research team by scientists in Portugal and the US has found for the first time nicotine receptors in the taste buds. In fact, although most of the toxicity of smoking is linked to other components,...
Health and Medicine | Read moreBrain waves
A seemingly simple action, such as picking up a pencil, actually involves complex communication between many parts of the central nervous system. Information about the pencil and its location enters t...
Life Sciences | Read morePenn biophysicists create new model for protein-cholesterol interactions in brain and muscle tissue
The results provide a new model of behavior for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, a well studied protein involved in inflammation, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia...
Life Sciences | Read moreDo 'light' cigarettes deliver less nicotine to the brain than regular cigarettes?
Reporting in the current online edition of the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, UCLA psychiatry professor Dr. Arthur L. Brody and colleagues found that low-nicotine cigarettes act sim...
Health and Medicine | Read moreWeeding out the highs of medical marijuana
Cannabis is a source of compounds known as cannabinoids, one of which, THC – the main chemical responsible for the ‘high’ – has long been licensed as a medicine for suppressing nausea produced by chem...
Health and Medicine | Read moreCuring addiction with cannabis medicines
Teams of pharmacologists, studying the cannabis-like compounds which exist naturally in our bodies (endocannabinoids), are exploring the potential for medical treatment. This includes treating conditi...
Life Sciences | Read moreDNA (driver of nicotine addiction)
Cigarette smoking is the largest preventable source of death and disability in the USA, contributing to ~ 400,000 deaths annually. Despite widespread knowledge of the health dangers, ~ 1 in 8 American...
Life Sciences | Read moreHow does the Opioid System Control Pain, Reward and Addictive Behaviors?
The opioid system controls pain, reward and addictive behaviors. Opioids exert their pharmacological actions through three opioid receptors, µ, d and ? whose genes have been cloned (Oprm, Oprd1 and Op...
Health and Medicine | Read moreStudies identify DNA regions linked to nicotine dependence
Americans are bombarded with antismoking messages, yet at least 65 million of us continue to light up. Genetic factors play an important role in this continuing addiction to cigarettes, suggest scient...
Life Sciences | Read moreNew discovery opens door for drugs for alcohol addiction
This has been demonstrated in a doctoral dissertation at the Sahgrenska Academy at Göteborg University in Sweden. The discovery may lead to new treatment for alcohol abuse.The connection betwe...
Health and Medicine | Read moreImaging study may help point toward more effective smoking cessation treatments
Researchers found that the amount of nicotine contained in just one puff of a cigarette can occupy about 30 percent of the brain's most common type of nicotine receptors, while three puffs of a c...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreTeam discovers possible ’universal strategy’ to combat addiction
An international research team led by the University of Saskatchewan has discovered a signaling pathway in the brain involved in drug addiction, together with a method for blocking its actio...
Health and Medicine | Read moreResearchers launch study of environmental causes of Alzheimer’s disease
A Marshfield Clinic scientist is searching for genetic and environmental causes of Alzheimer’s disease as a first step toward developing diagnostic markers to identify people at risk be...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreNew nicotine-like imaging agent holds promise in PET studies, may help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease
The chemical nicotine--a main ingredient in tobacco--may hold promise in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, give insight into therapeutic interventions for nicotine addiction ...
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