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SPECT imaging of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in nonsmoking heavy alcohol drinking individuals

Irina Esterlis, Kelly Cosgrove, Ismene L. Petrakis, Sherry A. McKee, Frédéric Y. Bois, Erica Krantzler, Stephanie Stiklus, Edward Perry, Gilles Tamagnan, John Seibyl,

Drug and Alcohol Dependence · 2010 · 14 citations · 29 references

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Loss of neurons in the nucleus basalis of Meynert in Alzheimer's disease, paralysis agitans and Korsakoff's disease

Thomas Arendt, Volker Bigl, A Arendt et al. · Acta Neuropathologica · 1983 · 821 citations

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Varenicline, an α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor partial agonist, selectively decreases ethanol consumption and seeking

Pia Steensland, Jeffrey A. Simms, Joan Holgate et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 366 citations · Full text

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Varenicline Reduces Alcohol Self-Administration in Heavy-Drinking Smokers

Sherry A. McKee, Emily Harrison, Stephanie S. O’Malley et al. · Biological Psychiatry · 2009 · 300 citations · Full text

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Human Tobacco Smokers in Early Abstinence Have Higher Levels of β<sub>2</sub>* Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors than Nonsmokers

Julie K. Staley, Suchitra Krishnan‐Sarin, Kelly Cosgrove et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2006 · 221 citations · Full text

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β2-Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Availability During Acute and Prolonged Abstinence From Tobacco Smoking

Kelly Cosgrove, Jeffery C. Batis, Frédéric Y. Bois et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry · 2009 · 157 citations · Full text

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