Nicotine receptors found for the first time in the mouth raise new hopes for anti-smoking therapies
Date: 29.1.2009
A research team in Portugal and the US has found for the first time **nicotine receptors** in the taste buds. In fact, although most of the toxicity of smoking is linked to other components, it is nicotine that leads to **smoking** addiction and until now it was believed that this substance had to migrate into the brain to bind its specific receptors and provoke its effects.
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