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    Biobehavioral and affective stress responses during nicotine withdrawal: Influence of regular cannabis co-use

    Co-use of cannabis is increasing in nicotine users and presents additional challenges in addressing nicotine dependence. This study examined the links between regular co-use of cannabis and nicotine with biobe...

    Mustafa al’Absi, Briana N. DeAngelis, Motohiro Nakajima in Psychopharmacology (2024)

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    Humoral and cellular immunity to SARS-CoV-2 Ancestral and Omicron BA.5 variants following vaccination in myelofibrosis patients

    Ahmad Alcheikh, Griffith B. Perkins, Phillippa A. Pucar in Blood Cancer Journal (2023)

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    Effects of regular cannabis and nicotine use on acute stress responses: chronic nicotine, but not cannabis use, is associated with blunted adrenocortical and cardiovascular responses to stress

    Cannabis is one of the most prevalent substances used by tobacco smokers and, in light of the growing list of states and territories legalizing cannabis, it is expected that co-use of cannabis and nicotine wil...

    Mustafa al’Absi, Briana DeAngelis, Mark Fiecas, Alan Budney in Psychopharmacology (2022)

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    Smoking-related symptomatology in pregnant smokers during ad libitum smoking and following overnight smoking abstinence

    Current literature suggests there may be a relationship between sex hormones, which dramatically increase during pregnancy, and nicotine use behaviors. We hypothesized that higher progesterone and progesterone...

    Sharon Allen, Katherine Harrison, Ashley Petersen, Jane Goodson in BMC Research Notes (2019)

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    Early life adversity influences stress response association with smoking relapse

    We examined the hypothesis that stress-related blunting of cortisol in smokers is particularly pronounced in those with a history of severe life adversity.

    Mustafa al’Absi, Andrine Lemieux, Ruth Westra, Sharon Allen in Psychopharmacology (2017)

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    Changes in circulating leptin levels during the initial stage of cessation are associated with smoking relapse

    Leptin has been linked to tobacco craving and withdrawal-related symptoms. Very few studies have examined leptin prospectively in both male and female nonsmokers and smokers.

    Andrine Lemieux, Motohiro Nakajima, Dorothy K. Hatsukami in Psychopharmacology (2015)

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    Characterization of tobacco withdrawal symptoms: transdermal nicotine reduces hunger and weight gain

    The accurate assessment of both tobacco withdrawal and the impact of the nicotine patch on withdrawal may be compromised by attrition of subjects, or by subjects smoking during withdrawal. To reduce these occ...

    D. E. Jorenby, Dorothy K. Hatsukami, Stevens S. Smith in Psychopharmacology (1996)