Effects of Nicotine 1

Nicotine Administrations: Conditions where Effects are Maintained or where Self-blockade Takes Place.- Nicotine-Induced Release of Noradrenaline and Neuropeptide Yin the Heart: Dependence on Calcium, Potassium, and pH.- Evidence for Noradrenaline-Mediated Changes in Platelet and Heart Function following ChronicTreatment of Rats and Guinea Pigs with Nicotine.- Doppler Flow Measurements and Smoking in Pregnancy.- Effect of Nicotine on Red Cell Deformability in Diabetes Mellitus.- Prenatal Nicotine Exposure and Sexual Brain Differentiation.- Desipramine Inhibits the Nicotine-Induced Exocytosis in Rat Phaeochromocytoma Cells (PC12).- IV: Mechanisms of Nicotine Actions in the CNS.- Glucose Metabolism: An Index of Nicotine Action in the Brain.- Effects of a Chronic Nicotine Infusion on the Local Cerebral Glucose Utilization.- Ion Channel Blockers and Nicotinic Agonists and Antagonist to Probe Brain Nicotinic Receptors.- Increased Sensitivity of Brain Muscarinic Receptor to its Agonist as a Result of Repeated Nicotine Pretreatment in Rats, Mice and Rabbits.- Nicotine Induces Opioid Peptide Gene Expression in Hypothalamus and Adrenal Medulla of Rats.- The Mesolimbic Dompamine System as aTarget for Nicotine.- Presynaptic Actions of Nicotine in the CNS.- Mechanisms Underlying the Protective Effects of Chronic Nicotine Treatment against Degeneration of Central Dopamine Neurons by Mechanical Lesions.- The Effect of Chronic Nicotine Treatment on 1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine-Induced Degeneration of Nigrostriatal Dopamine Neurons in the Black Mouse.- Effects of Postnatal Exposure to Cigarette Smoke on Hypothalamic Catecholamine Nerve Terminal Systems and Neuroendocrine Function in Weanling and Adult Male Rats.- Nicotine Infusion in Man Stimulates Plasma-Vasopressin, -ACTH and -Cortisol in a Dose Dependent Manner.- A Single Dose of Nicotine is Sufficient to Increase Tyrosine Hydroxylase Activity in Noradrenergic Neurones.- The Effect of Acute and Repeated Nicotine Injections on Brain Dopamine Activation: Comparisons with Morphine and Amphetamine.- Preliminary Studies on the In Vivo Desensitization of Central Nicotinic Receptors by (-)-Nicotine.- A Comparison of the Characteristics of Nicotine Receptors in Young and Aged Rat Cortex.- Thymopoietin Potently and Specifically Interacts with the Nicotinic ?-Bungarotoxin Receptor in Neuronal Tissue.- Low Concentrations of Nicotine Increase the Firing Rate of Neurons of the Rat Ventral Tegmental Area In Vitro.- Effect of Nicotine and Some other Hedonic Agents on Spontaneous Activity of Hippocampus Neurones in the Rat.- V: Behavioral Effects of Nicotine in Animals.- The Role of the Forebrain Cholinergic Projection System in Performance in the Radial-Arm Maze in Memory-Impaired Rats.- Alterations in Septohippocampal Cholinergic Receptors and Related Behavior after Prenatal Exposure to Nicotine.- Studies on the Role of Mesolimbic Dopamine in Behavioural Responses to Chronic Nicotine.- Rearing and Learning Behaviours of Rats after Long-Term Administration of Nicotine.- Regulation of Intravenous Nicotine Self-Administration - Dopamine Mechanisms.- Nicotine-Seeking Behaviour in Rhesus Monkeys.- Regulation of Various Responses to Nicotine by Different Nicotinic Receptor Subtypes.- Influence of Neonatal Nicotine Exposure on Development of Nicotinic Receptor Subtypes in Brain and Behaviour in Adult Mice.- Behavioral Interaction between Nicotine and Caffeine.- Effects of Pre- and Postnatal Injections of >Smoking Doses< of Nicotine, or Vehicle alone, on the Maternal Behavior and Second-Generation Adult Behavior of Roman High- and Low-Avoidance Rats.- VI: Behavioral Effects of Nicotine in Man.- The Pleasures of Nicotine.- Nicotine Deprivation and Nicotine Reinstatement: Effects upon a Brief Sustained AttentionTask.- Neuroelectric Correlates of Smoking Behavior.- Nicotine: A Unique Psychoactive Drug.- The Comparative Psychopharmacology of Nicotine.- Separate and Combined Effects of the Social Drugs on Psychomotor Performance.- The influence of Nicotine on CNS Arousal during the Menstrual Cycle.- Effects of Nicotine Gum on Short-Term Memory.- Relationships between Photic Driving, Nicotine, and Memory.- Effects of Nicotine Cigarettes on Memory Search Rate.- Nicotine Polacrilex Gum and Sustained Attention.- The Behavioral Effects of Nicotine in Laboratory Animals and in the Human Smoker.- VII: Nicotine and Human Disease.- Nicotine and Cardiovascular Disease.- Nicotine and Smoking in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis.- Cigarette Smoking Influences Eicosanoid Production by the Colonic Mucosa in a Dose Dependent Manner.- Abstention from Smoking May Increase the Risk of Ulcerative Colitis by Enhancing Eicosanoid Production.- Smoking and Parkinson's Disease.- The Effects of Nicotine on Attention, Information Processing, and Working Memory in Patients with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type.- Nicotinic Receptor Loss in Brain of Alzheimer Patients as Revealed by In Vitro Receptor Binding and In Vivo Positron EmissionTomographyTechniques.- Author Index.