Planarians and nicotine paper

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Hello all!
Since you now know a little bit about dose-response relationships you are ready for my summary of the next planarian pharmacology paper, coming soon!
A cembranoid from tobacco prevents the expression of nicotine-induced withdrawal behavior in planarian worms.
Pagán OR, Rowlands AL, Fattore AL, Coudron T, Urban KR, Bidja AH, Eterović VA. Eur J Pharmacol. 2009 Aug 1;615(1-3):118-24. doi: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2009.05.022. Epub 2009 May 30.
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I am a husband, a father of three, and a baldie, who also happens to be a pretty good (I hope) University Professor and Researcher. My undergraduate degree is in General Science, and my MS is in Biochemistry, both from the University of Puerto Rico. My PhD is in Pharmacology, with an emphasis in Neurobiology, from Cornell University. I love science! (do I really need to say it?) In this blog, I mainly talk about science, especially to non-scientists, but from time to time I explore topics like how is it like to raise a boy with autism, science fiction, education, etc. I am usually able to give these and other topics a scientific twist. I also blog about my favorite (non-human) types of organisms, the flatworms, especially planarians. I use planarians as animal models in pharmacology. If you’d like to see my papers so far, click here. Even though I am well published in scientific journals, I got the popular science writing bug relatively recently. I am a scientist who writes, and I have published three book so far. I hope you enjoy my posts. The opinions expressed in this blog are mine alone. They do not represent the views of my employer, my wife, my children, my parents & siblings, or Chuck Darwin…

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