Increased Nicotinic Receptors in Brains from Smokers: Membrane Binding and Autoradiography Studies

Drugs abused by humans preferentially increase synaptic dopamine concentrations in the mesolimbic system of freely moving rats.

G. Di Chiara, Assunta Impérato · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1988 · 4.7K citations · Full text

Psychopharmacology, Pharmacotherapy, Synaptic Dopamine Concentrations +18

A subtype of nicotinic cholinergic receptor in rat brain is composed of alpha 4 and beta 2 subunits and is up-regulated by chronic nicotine treatment.

C M Flores, S W Rogers, L A Pabreza et al. · Molecular Pharmacology · 1992 · 875 citations

Both alpha- and beta-subunits contribute to the agonist sensitivity of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

CW Luetje, James W. Patrick · Journal of Neuroscience · 1991 · 559 citations · Full text

Beta-subunits Contribute, Different Beta-subunits, Agonist Sensitivity +15

Nicotine binding and nicotinic receptor subunit RNA after chronic nicotine treatment

M J Marks, JR Pauly, ES Deneris et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 1992 · 552 citations · Full text

Neurotransmitter, Molecular Biology, Chronic Nicotine Treatment +20

Diversity of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in rat hippocampal neurons. I. Pharmacological and functional evidence for distinct structural subtypes.

Manickavasagom Alkondon, Edson X. Albuquerque · Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · 1993 · 552 citations