Carol Wuenschell

Ph.D.

Reseacher Assistant Professor

School of Dentistry
Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology

Dr. Wuenschell is studying the effect of added nicotine on the development of whole embryonic mouse lungs grown in a serumless culture system. Dr. Wuenschell has recently received a five-year grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to continue this work and in particular to study the nature and location of the nicotine receptors involved in mediating the developmental effects of nicotine in the lung. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors constitue a large and diverse receptor family found mainly on cells of the central and peripheral nervous systems.

 

 

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