The aim of the present study was to explore the impact of acute and chronic nicotine consumption on measures of intracortical inhibition and facilitation.

This study involved 50 chronic heavy cigarette smokers and 40 healthy subjects matched for age, sex and educational level, with no history of chronic nicotine intake. Intracortical…[Read more]

The intensity of expression in dysplastic and malignant tissues was significantly reduced compared with normal tissues (

=0.0001). The expression of galectin-8 did not correlate with stage (

=0.303), lymph node involvement (

=0.326), tumor grade (

=0.769), distant metastasis (

=0.748), and age (

=0.574).

We observed…[Read more]