Metabolites of nicotine in rat brain after peripheral nicotine administration: Cotinine, nornicotine, and norcotinine

Drug Metabolism and Disposition

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-54

  Crooks, Peter A ^a   Li, Min ^b   Dwoskin, Linda P ^b  

^a University of Kentucky   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTININE; NICOTINE; NORNICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG OXIDATION; DRUG TRANSFORMATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COTININE; MALE; NICOTINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031030608     PISSN: 00909556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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