A possible role for the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway in increased mortality observed in critically ill patients receiving nicotine replacement therapy

Crit Care Med. 2007 Oct;35(10):2468-9; author reply 2469. doi: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000284498.88787.D7.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Critical Illness / mortality*
  • Humans
  • Nicotine / therapeutic use*
  • Receptors, Nicotinic / physiology*
  • Substance Withdrawal Syndrome / drug therapy*
  • Tobacco Use Disorder / drug therapy*
  • Vagus Nerve / physiology*
  • alpha7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

Substances

  • Chrna7 protein, human
  • Receptors, Nicotinic
  • alpha7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
  • Nicotine