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ArticleMolecular pharmacology2025

Simulating early steps in nicotine dependence: Pharmacokinetics, activation, and chaperoning of nicotinic receptors.

Alexander Z Wang, Janice Jeon, Ryan M Drenan, Henry A Lester

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Article in Molecular pharmacology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Continuous Nicotine Monitors for Personal Nicotine Pharmacokinetics: A Receptor-Aware Research Agenda.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alexander Z WangDivision of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.
Janice JeonDivision of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.
Ryan M DrenanDepartment of Translational Neuroscience, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Henry A LesterDivision of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. Electronic address: lester@caltech.edu.

Funding

Identifying nicotine withdrawal mechanisms hidden within habenular complexityR01DA040626 · NIDA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Ryan Michael Drenan · 2016 to 2026
$4.0M
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor function in the mesolimbic dopamine systemR01DA035942 · NIDA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI DRENAN, RYAN MICHAEL · 2014 to 2023
$3.9M
Fluorescent biosensors for subcellular pharmacokineticsR01GM123582 · NIGMS · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LESTER, HENRY A. · 2016 to 2021
$3.8M
Opioids inside OrganellesR21DA049140 · NIDA · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LESTER, HENRY A. · 2019 to 2020
$452k
NIDA NIH HHS DA035942NIDA NIH HHS DA040626NIDA NIH HHS DA049140NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA035942NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA040626NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA049140NIGMS NIH HHS GM-123582NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM123582
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nicotine App is a publicly accessible web-based simulator for the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of human smoking or vaping. The simulator exploits observations that nicotine has nearly equal concentrations in the plasma, cerebrospinal fluid, and endoplasmic reticulum, with time delays of just a few seconds. The simulations describe 2 nicotine-dependent processes. First, nicotine activates nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) channels on the plasma membrane. Second, nicotine pharmacologically chaperones nAChRs, with an EC

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Molecular ChaperonesNicotineReceptors, NicotinicTobacco Use DisorderComputer SimulationHumansMolecular ChaperonesNicotineReceptors, NicotinicNicontine addictionPharmacokineticsTobacco

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PMID40215584
PMCPMC13632058

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