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Relationship between skin melanin index and nicotine pharmacokinetics in African American smokers

BACKGROUND: Blacks bear a disproportionate burden of smoking-related diseases and experience greater difficulty quitting smoking than Whites. Nicotine has a high affinity for melanin, and it has been hypothesized that melanin levels might influence nicotine pharmacokinetics and enhance dependence. T...

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Published in:Drug Alcohol Depend
Main Authors: Liakoni, Evangelia, St.Helen, Gideon, Dempsey, Delia A, Jacob, Peyton, Tyndale, Rachel F, Benowitz, Neal L
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7272190/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31521954
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.04.039
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