American scientists have cured mice of cocaine addiction
Researchers at the New York Medical Center Mount sinai were able to cure mice of cocaine addiction with the help of a blocker of a protein molecule appearing in the blood of cocaine addicts. The research results were published in a scientific journal. Nature Communications., writes Rtvi.
The protein blocker G-CSF, which is now used in medicine to restore patients undergoing chemotherapy, may become the first drug to get rid of cocaine addiction.
This protein appears in large quantities in the blood of regular users of cocaine.
During the experiment, researchers from Mount sinai was administered to cocaine-dependent mice blocker injections. As a result, the experimental animals sharply lost interest in the drug. In this case, the blocker affects only a pointwise dependence on cocaine. According to Dr. Drew Kiraly, mice, for example, continued to show interest in sugar, which, like cocaine, stimulates the brain regions responsible for generating motivation and reward.
Until now, researchers have failed to find an effective drug to treat cocaine addiction. As Drew Kiraly says, scientists will need to conduct a lot of additional research before the drug is tested on humans. However, if further studies show the effectiveness of the blocker in the treatment of drug dependence, it will be quite simple to inject the medicine. The G-CSF molecule blocker is already on the list of drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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