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Clearing the smoke on nicotine and angiogenesis

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Nicotine is widely used as an aid to smoking cessation and is being evaluated to treat non-smoking related disorders. Stimulation of angiogenesis by nicotine raises many questions about its mechanism of action and use in therapy. (pages 833–839)

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Figure 1: The molecular and cellular players in nicotine-induced angiogenesis.

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