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14/05/2013
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Drug tested in nonhuman primates causes the body to react with immune response and 'eat' the drug as a Pac-Man
Vaccine promises to eliminate the drug from the body Play
NEW YORK - An anti-cocaine vaccine has been successfully used in non-human primates and is one step closer to approval for use in therapies for addiction. The vaccine (dAd5GNE) combines elements of the common cold virus with GNE particle that mimics cocaine, and prevents high dopamine drug related.
- The vaccine 'eats' cocaine in the blood as a Pac-Man, before the drug reaches the brain - explained po resident department of genetic medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College magazine "Wired". - With the vaccine, even if the person falls into addiction, cocaine has no effect.
Cocaine works by binding to a dopamine transporter by preventing the recycling hormone pleasure in two areas of the brain which then produce the effect of the drug. The vaccine stimulates the body to treat cocaine as an intruder and mount an immune response against the drug.
According to the study results, non-human primates who received the vaccine had very low levels of cocaine connection with the transmitter dopamine, about 20% - well below the 47% necessary to 'give cheap'.
- An anti-cocaine vaccine will require booster doses in humans, but we still do not know how often these booster shots will be needed - said Crystal. - I believe that for those people who want desperately to break their addiction, a series of vaccines will help.
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