Nutritional insights from The Encyclopaedia of Food and Health (2016), published by Elsevier Science
Ribechini E, Hutchinson JA, Hergovits S, Heuer M, Lucas J, Schleicher U, Jordn Garrote AL, Potter SJ, Riquelme P, Brackmann H, Mller N, Raifer H, Berberich I, Huber M, Beilhack A, Lohoff M, Bogdan C, Eyrich M, Hermanns HM, Geissler EK, Lutz MB
Depression, particularly major depressive disorder
As a high-affinity agonist of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), nicotine directly activates VTA dopamine neurons through 2 subunit-containing receptors, inducing Na + /Ca 2+ influx that causes membrane depolarization
These improvements support laboratory studies involving specialized sequences and targeted research applications
This is consistent with the data obtained from the proteomic analysis