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Title: Extended access nicotine self-administration with periodic deprivation increases
Post by: Goats on October 22, 2014, 03:50:38 am

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Extended access nicotine self-administration with periodic deprivation increases immature neurons in the hippocampus.

CONCLUSIONS:

These findings demonstrate that extended versus limited access to nicotine self-administration differentially affects the generation of new oligodendroglia and new neurons during adulthood. The increases in the number of differentiating cells in extended access nicotine self-administering rats may consequently contribute to aberrant hippocampal neurogenesis and may contribute to maladaptive addiction-like behaviors dependent on the hippocampus.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25059540

However it does not state that they mature.