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“Administration by microdialysis of 10 mM nicotine , resulting in a nicotine concentration of 0.134 μmol/g in the hippocampus, increased the extracellular levels of aspartic acid , glutamic acid, and serine by 26–60%.”
“The inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) is also neuroprotective, however, in the presence of nicotine , neuroprotection against NMDA is abolished.”
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics • 1996 | View Paper
“The perfusion of 1 mM nicotine in Ringer's solution increased the extracellular levels of aspartic and glutamic acids by 40-50% in the striatum and had no effect on the levels of serine, glycine, glutamine, taurine or threonine.”