Mount Sinai Researchers Find Promising New Drug Targets for Cocaine Addiction

Published January 21, 2014

Mount Sinai researchers find promising new drug targets for cocaine addiction
Filed under: cocaine addiction gene
This increase in PARP-1 leads to an increase in its PAR marks at genes in the nucleus accumbens, contributing to long-term cocaine addiction. Although this is the first time PARP-1 has been linked to cocaine addiction, PARP-1 has been under … Read more on EurekAlert (press release)

Neuroscience researchers discover gene that controls response to cocaine
Filed under: cocaine addiction gene
UT Southwestern neuroscience researchers have identified a gene that controls the response to cocaine by comparing closely related strains of mice often used to study addiction and behavior patterns. The researchers suspect that the newly identified … Read more on News-Medical.net