Discovery Of Nicotine Addiction Brain Mechanism May Lead To New Anti-Smoking Drugs

Discovery of a key mechanism in the brain that regulates vulnerability to nicotine addiction could pave the way for new anti-smoking treatments that boost a signalling pathway that is normally weaker in susceptible individuals because of a gene mutation, said US researchers in a Nature study published online this week. Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute said …
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