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The metabolic fate of the minor tobacco alkaloids

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Nicotine and Related Alkaloids

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This chapter is concerned with the metabolic fates of the so-called minor tobacco alkaloids. Nicotine*; (1, see Figure 7.1) is the most abundant (Schmeltz and Hoffman, 1977) and pharmacologically potent (Clark et al., 1965) alkaloid present in commercial tobacco products but is only one of a complex mixture of tobacco alkaloids. When considering the potential health consequences of exposure to tobacco products, it may be as well to remember that about 2200 components have been separated from tobacco plant extracts (Schmeltz and Hoffman, 1977) and almost 500 compounds in tobacco smoke have been characterized by gas chromatographic techniques (Schumacher et al., 1977).

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  1. Chelsea Department of Pharmacy, King’s College, London, UK

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  2. Department of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    J. Wahren

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Liu, X., Jacob, P., Castagnoli, N. (1993). The metabolic fate of the minor tobacco alkaloids. In: Gorrod, J.W., Wahren, J. (eds) Nicotine and Related Alkaloids. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2110-1_7

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