Nicotine directly increases dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens, but it also increases glutamate levels which gets the ventral tegmentum neurons to release more dopamine onto the nucleus accumbens.
尼古丁可以直接提高伏隔核的多巴胺水平,但同时也提高谷氨酸盐水平,使腹侧被盖区神经元释放更多的多巴胺至伏隔核。