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Possible Vaccine against Cocaine Addiction

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

A vaccine that helps you wean cocaine, which would still be a nice development. Two American scientists are working at this moment.

The vaccine needs to stimulate the immune system to attack the drug. Normal speaking, our immune system drugs such as cocaine and not recognize them no antibodies.

This is because a cocaine molecule is too small to be noticed. The vaccine must ensure that the molecule increases, so the immune system drug is recognized.

The vaccine is currently being clinically tested. The research couple hopes a few months to get permission to test larger scale.

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Results with a vaccine for cocaine addiction

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

vaccine for cocaine addiction

Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, USA, have developed a vaccine that helps block the sensation generated by cocaine use by 38 per cent of people who took it, as published in its latest issue the magazine ‘ Archives of General Psychiatry, thereby opening a new hope in the treatment of addiction to this drug.

As explained by the author of this research, Dr. Thomas Kosten, the aim is to curb the rewarding effects of cocaine and reduce relapses in their consumption, and so far it seems that “the concept works,” he said.

Cocaine molecules are too small to attract the attention of the immune system so that, for the body recognizes them, the researchers designed a vaccine that uses a harmless version of cholera toxin were added to small samples of cocaine molecular . (more…)

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