Nicotine for psychiatric disease: from nuisance to novel treatment?

Future Med Chem. 2015;7(10):1217-20. doi: 10.4155/fmc.15.67.
No abstract available

Keywords: anxiety syndrome; inflammation; maladaptive synaptic plasticity; nicotinic receptors; post-traumatic stress disorder; schizophrenic psychosis.

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents / immunology
  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Cytokines / immunology
  • Humans
  • Inflammation / complications
  • Inflammation / drug therapy*
  • Inflammation / immunology
  • Mental Disorders / complications
  • Mental Disorders / drug therapy*
  • Mental Disorders / immunology
  • Nicotine / immunology
  • Nicotine / therapeutic use*
  • Nicotinic Agonists / immunology
  • Nicotinic Agonists / therapeutic use*
  • Stress, Physiological
  • Synaptic Transmission / drug effects

Substances

  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents
  • Cytokines
  • Nicotinic Agonists
  • Nicotine