Ciba. Foundation Symposium No 152 THE BIOLOGY OF NICOTINE DEPENDENCE (6)7-9 November 1989 OUTLINE PROGRAMME Organizer: G BOCK Editor J MARSH Cbairman L L IVERSEN (Harlow, UK) 1 Behavioural pharmacology of nicotine: implications for brain binding sites 2 Structural and functional heterogeneity of receptors 3 Mechanism of action of the acetylcholine receptor 4 Modulition of the niceitine receptor by chronic exposure to nicotinic agoni3t3 and antagonists 5 Role of the nicotinic receptor in modulating neurotransmission 6 Regulation of endocrine function by the acetylcholine re2eptors 7 Effects of nicotine on cerebral glucose metabolism 8 Neurophysiological studies 9 Neurophy3iological studies 10 Pharmacokinetic c-)nsiderations in understanding nicotine dependence 11 Pharmaeodynamics 12 Behavioural studies in man Di3cu3--2:-.ts M AWAD (Haifa, Israel) (Bursar) D J K BALFOUR (Dundee, UK) E A BARNARD (Cambridge, UK) J-P CHANGEUX (Paris, France) JA GRAY (London, UK) NE GRUNBERG (Bethesda, USA) SHEINEMANN (San Diego, USA) JE HENNINGFIELD (Baltimore, USA) Kj KELLAR (Washington, USA) PLIPPIELLO (Winston-Salem, USA) GG LUNT (Bath, UK) JE ROSE (Los Angeles, USA) MA H RUSSELL (London, UK) RSCHWARTZ (Durham, USA) I P STOLERMAN (London, UK) J LINDSTROM (San Diego, USA) 1 ; A C COLLINS (Boulder, USA) S WONNACOTT (Bath, UK) K FUXE (Stockholm, Sweden) E D LONDON (Baltimore, USA) P B S CLARKE (7ancouver, Canada~ T SVENSSON (Stockholm, Sweden) N L BENOWITZ (San Francisco, USA' R J WEST (Egham, UK) 0 POMERLEAU (Ann Arbor, USA) DEADLINES: STMP313: Friday 8 September Typescript: Friday 6 October 1989 U-1 L." Ln -10 L-'4 18-T.8 BATCo document for Province of BritiSh Columbia 29 October 1999