With increasing interest in its proposed neuromuscular blockade and anti-cellular aging properties, researchers are ...

“But I think there's a lot of potential for modifying the nicotinic system.” In the brain, nicotine binds to receptors of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Eleven subtypes of these nicotinic ...

Miwa’s initial work showed that lynx1 was concentrated in the nervous system. Additional studies in collaboration with Ibañez-Tallon showed that lynx-1 altered the function of nicotinic acetylcholine ...

Neuroscientist Janna Moen, PhD, never expected her doctoral research on nicotinic receptor pharmacology to intersect so ...

To understand at the molecular level how genetic variability, particularly with respect to nicotinic receptor genes, influences risk for drug dependence and co-morbid psychiatric disorders. Current ...

Chemicals in cigarettes, such as nicotine, arsenic, ammonia, and acetone, are believed to interfere with brain function.

The neuromuscular junction contains three types of nicotinic receptors. Two are on the muscle surface (one is junctional and the other extrajunctional), and the third is on the parasympathetic ...

Nicotine, a major component of tobacco smoke, could exert either nonreceptor-mediated biological effects or, more importantly, act on the different subtypes of nicotinic brain receptors ...

including a few that code for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. These receptors bind to nicotine and nicotine derivatives and are found on cells in the nervous system, in the lungs, and elsewhere ...

MT1988 is a fixed-dose combination of two well-established small molecules that act on nicotinic receptors, designed to ...