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Theodore A. Slotkin

Researcher at Duke University

Publications -  577
Citations -  31330

Theodore A. Slotkin is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nicotine & Cholinergic. The author has an hindex of 89, co-authored 575 publications receiving 30070 citations. Previous affiliations of Theodore A. Slotkin include Washington University in St. Louis & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Fetal nicotine or cocaine exposure: which one is worse?

TL;DR: Animal models of nicotine exposure are designed to prove that nicotine itself is a neuroteratogen, thus providing a causative link between tobacco exposure and adverse perinatal outcomes, and a rational basis for decisions about nicotine substitution therapy for smoking cessation in pregnancy.
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Cholinergic systems in brain development and disruption by neurotoxicants: nicotine, environmental tobacco smoke, organophosphates.

TL;DR: New findings indicate that developmental neurotoxicity extends to late phases of brain maturation including adolescence, and novel in vitro and in vivo exposure models are being developed to uncover heretofore unsuspected mechanisms and targets for developmental neurotoxicants.
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The ``Stress'' of Being Born

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that newborns are less sensitive to pain and the stress of being born seems to be good for the baby, and that the transient tachypnoea often seen after elective C-section could be prevented by beta-adrenergic stimulation with terbutaline.
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Brain anomalies in children exposed prenatally to a common organophosphate pesticide.

TL;DR: Significant associations of prenatal exposure to a widely used environmental neurotoxicant, at standard use levels, with structural changes in the developing human brain are reported.