New research shows that astrocytes play an active role in nicotine-induced brain changes, challenging the long-held ...

Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that ...

Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that ...

Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent global health challenges, yet the cellular mechanisms underlying it are ...

Introduction: Cigarette smoking continues to be one of the most important behavioral causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. Varenicline, an α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) ...

After a few vigorous puffs of a burning cigarette, a smoker’s lungs will be filled with a toxic cloud of more than 5,000 different substances. Their combined effects on health are well known: cancer, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Everyone knows that smoking cigarettes increases your chances of lung cancer, heart disease and early death. But one researcher says that nicotine, the addictive substance found in ...

Everyone knows that smoking cigarettes increases your chances of lung cancer, heart disease and early death. But one researcher says that nicotine, the addictive substance found in cigarettes, may ...

In laboratories across the country, nicotine — widely vilified as one of the greatest threats to human health — is undergoing a makeover. Separated from cigarettes, molecularly tweaked and carefully ...