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• Nicotine binds molecules called nicotinic acetylcholine receptors to nerve cells in the brain.
• This receptor, known as the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, increases excitability within in the brain's reward centers.
• "This is called a" nicotinic "receptor and we think of it as interacting with nicotine, but it likely has multiple functions in the brain," Hawrot said.
• The alpha-7 receptor is the most enigmatic of the so-called "nicotinic" receptors, so named because nicotine binds to them when it is introduced into the body.