The lack of association between angiotensin-converting enzyme gene insertion/deletion polymorphism and nicotine dependence in multiple sclerosis

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• 作者：Sergej Nadalin ; Alena Buretić-Tomljanović ; Polona Lavtar ; Nada Starčević Čizmarević ; Alenka Hodžić ; Juraj Sepčić ; Miljenko Kapović ; Borut Peterlin and Smiljana Ristić
• 刊名：Brain and Behavior
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：7
• 期：1
• 全文大小：344K
• ISSN：2157-9032

文摘

Blood-borne angiotensin II is generated from angiotensinogen via cleavage by renin and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), an enzymatic cascade known as the renin–angiotensin system (RAS). Several lines of evidence indicate that ACE, beyond its classical role of mediating blood pressure regulation, might contribute to the etiology of substance addictions by influencing dopaminergic signaling. A functional insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of the ACE gene was associated with risk for being a smoker among individuals with depression and with smoking severity in studies comprising patients with depression and healthy controls. Several reports have described significantly increased ACE activity in cerebrospinal fluid and serum among MS patients. Furthermore, in our previous work with MS patients from Croatian and Slovenian populations, we demonstrated that the ACE-I/D polymorphism contributes to an elevated MS risk among male patients. Here we investigated whether the ACE-I/D polymorphism might influence smoking behavior among patients with MS.