Effects of tobacco and cigarette smoke extracts on serotonergic raphe neurons in the rat

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 925-929

  Touiki, Khalid ^a,b   Rat, Pascal ^a   Molimard, Robert ^a   Chait, Abderrahman ^c   De Beaurepaire, Renaud ^a,b  

^a Centre Hospitalier Paul Guiraud   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Denicotinized; Dependence; Electrophysiology; Harmane; Nicotine; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ANABASINE; CIGARETTE SMOKE; MECAMYLAMINE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NORNICOTINE; PLANT EXTRACT; TOBACCO EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

EID: 34249027257     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32811d6d21     Document Type: Article

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