NICOTINE – RATS
August 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US National Institute on Drug Abuse has released research that may assist smokers who have tried quit tobacco but have been stymied by treatments currently available. Its scientists not only developed a new vaccine that reduced rats' behavioural response to nicotine, but they were able to administer it without any other substance. That would mean both benefits for those who do not respond to conventional nicotine treatments and those who cannot tolerate the associated side effects.
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THE US National Institute on Drug Abuse has released research that may assist smokers who have tried quit tobacco but have been stymied by treatments currently available. Its scientists not only developed a new vaccine that reduced rats' behavioural response to nicotine, but they were able to administer it without any other substance. That would mean both benefits for those who do not respond to conventional nicotine treatments and those who cannot tolerate the associated side effects.
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