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Nicotine and menthol independently exert neuroprotective effects against cisplatin- or amyloid- toxicity by upregulating Bcl-xl via JNK activation in SH-SY5Y cells

YIBIN RUAN¹, ZHONGMING XIE², QIONG LIU², LIXIAO ZHANG², XIKUI HAN², XIAOYAN LIAO², JIAN LIU^1,*, FENGGUANG GAO^2,*

1 Technology Center, China Tobacco Guizhou Industrial Co., Ltd., Guiyang, 550003, China
2 Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China

* Address correspondence to: Jian Liu, ; Fengguang Gao,