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Pathway modelling of inter-relationships between nicotine, cotinine, and nAChRs. The direct and indirect coefficient values allow comparison between the strength in each model. Nicotine is a moderate exogenous predictor for nAChRs variation both directly and indirectly through cotinine. Single-headed arrows indicate direct relationships, and single-headed dashed line arrows indicate indirect relationships
