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Response to Transdermal Selegiline Smoking Cessation Therapy and Markers in the 15q24 Chromosomal Region.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco - 1 Sept 2015
Sarginson Jane E, Killen Joel D, Lazzeroni Laura C, Fortmann Stephen P, Ryan Heather S, Ameli Niloufar, Schatzberg Alan F, Murphy Greer M
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INTRODUCTION: Current treatments for smoking cessation have limited efficacy. A potential pharmaceutical treatment for smoking cessation is selegiline, a selective and irreversible monoamine oxidase B inhibitor. A few clinical trials have been carried out using selegiline but the results have been mixed. We sought to determine if genetic markers in cholinergic loci in the 15q24 chromosomal region predict response...
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