Identification of the pathways that promote opioid addiction, tolerance and pain relief are crucial to develop effective analgesics and new potential treatments for addiction. Now, new research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reveals that opiate use alters the activity of a specific protein needed for the normal functioning of the brain's reward center. Investigators were able to block the protein, as well as increase its expression in the mouse nucleus accumbens, ...
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