Thursday, October 30, 2014

Potential Treatment Target for Cocaine Addiction Discovered

Massachusetts General Hospital and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania researchers have identified a new target for therapies to treat cocaine addiction. In their study receiving advance online publication in emMolecular Psychiatry/em, the investigators find evidence that changing one amino acid in a subunit of an important receptor protein alters whether cocaine-experienced animals will resume drug seeking after a period of cocaine abstinence. ...

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