a(CHEBI:nicotine) increases p(HGNCGENEFAMILY:"Cholinergic receptors nicotinic subunits")

PubMed:19126755

In the smoker’s brain, upregulation can increase high-affinity nicotine binding by nearly fourfold relative to age- and gender-matched controls that have not been exposed to nicotine (373, 421). The mechanism by which nicotine increases the total number of high-affinity nAChRs, though poorly defined, is highly conserved among species.

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