Nicotine addiction and nicotinic receptors: Lessons from genetically modified mice

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 389-401

  Changeux, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4BETA2; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; DISEASE MODEL; DISSOCIATION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; REVIEW; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPREGULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NICOTINE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REWARD; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

ANIMALIA; MUS; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 77952692954     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2849     Document Type: Review

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