Human PAC were exposed to nicotine (0.5 μM, 48 h) and carrier-mediated uptake of 3H-thiamin was determined as described under “Materials and Methods”. Data represents the mean ±...

Primary PAC were isolated from mice exposed to nicotine and their controls. Carrier -mediated [3H] thiamin uptake was determined as described in “Materials and Methods”. Data...

The activities of the promoters were determined as described in “Materials and Methods” and are presented in percentage relative to their controls. Data are mean ± SE of at...

Western blot analysis was carried out using pancreatic acinar whole cell proteins (60 μg) isolated from chronic nicotine exposed mice and their controls. Real-time PCR was...

Primers used for amplifying coding region of the respective genes by quantitative PCR.