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Nicotine promotes tumour growth and atherosclerosis
Email: Tudor Toma - ttoma@mail.dntis.ro News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010703-02
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Nicotine is widely used as an aid to smoking cessation and is currently evaluated to treat non-smoking related disorders such as Alzheimer and ulcerative colitis, where it is deemed to have no major long-term side effects. But in June Nature Medicine, Christopher Heeschen and colleagues from Stanford University School of Medicine, California found anatomic and functional evidence that nicotine induces angiogenesis and increases the growth of tumour and atheroma in association with increased neovascularization.
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