Nicotine promotes tumour growth and atherosclerosis
Treatment for nicotine addiction may be as harmful as smoking, as nicotine seems to promote angiogenesis and tumour formation.
Jul 2, 2001
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
Working on four different murine models, Heeschen
The authors speculated that endothelial production of nitric oxide, prostacyclin...