martes, 24 de abril de 2018

Attention to metabolic energy disturbance is needed to treat relapse of heroin - BMC Series blog

Attention to metabolic energy disturbance is needed to treat relapse of heroin - BMC Series blog

Dr Tingting Ning

Dr. Tingting Ning received her Ph.D degree from the college of life sciences, Wuhan University in 2008. After serving at Bio-rad laboratory for 5 years, she worked as a post-doc in the college of pharmacy, Wuhan University from 2013 to 2015. Now she works at Jianghan University. Her research covers many fields, including metabolic engineering, gut microbiota, and plant made pharmaceuticals.


Attention to metabolic energy disturbance is needed to treat relapse of heroin

Drug dependence is a major public health crisis. The main goal of treating substance dependence is to prevent relapse. In clinical practice, the risk of relapse remains high even after completion of treatment and prolonged abstinence. Our study published in BMC Neuroscience aims to understand the vulnerability to relapse as it is crucial for the development of an effective treatment for drug addiction.

Animal models of addiction

Several animal models are used to study drug dependence in which self-administration has obvious advantages. The first benefit of self-administration is that it provides the most direct point-to-point correspondence with addictive behaviors that are found in people.

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