Cannabimimetic effects modulated by cholinergic compounds

Addiction Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 411-415

  McPartland, John M ^a,c   Blanchon, Dan J ^b   Musty, Richard E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b School of Natural Sciences   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Acorus calamus; Datura stramonium; Endocannabinoid; Nicotina tabacum; Organosphosphate pesticides

Indexed keywords

ACORUS CALAMUS EXTRACT; CANNABIS; DATURA STRAMONIUM EXTRACT; DIMPYLATE; NICOTINE;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOBACCO;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADULT; ARACHIDONIC ACIDS; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYUNSATURATED ALKAMIDES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 49349106803     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2008.00126.x     Document Type: Article

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