Journal article
Vaccination against nicotine: an emerging therapy for tobacco dependence.
- Abstract:
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Tobacco dependence is an addiction characterised by compulsive drug-seeking and drug-taking behavior and intensive craving in the absence of tobacco. Nicotine is the major addictive component of tobacco and acts on the reward system in the brain. Together with strong conditional reinforcements, unaided smoking cessation attempts are notoriously unsuccessful and even the most recently introduced pharmacotherapy, varenicline, only achieves a 23% continuous abstinence rate after 1 year. Vaccinat...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Expert opinion on investigational drugs
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 11
- Pages:
- 1775-1783
- Publication date:
- 2007-11-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1744-7658
- ISSN:
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1354-3784
- Source identifiers:
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469722
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:469722
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- pubs:469722
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- 2014-06-18
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- Copyright date:
- 2007
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