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Cocaine addiction: clues from Drosophila on drugs
1Department of Neuroscience, The Chicago Medical School, 3333 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, Illinois, 60064-3095, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|October 26, 1999
Abstract:
Recent studies have shown that the fruitfly Drosophila exhibits behavioral sensitization in response to repeated exposure to cocaine; the exploitation of this genetically tractable model system for studying cocaine addiction is already providing new clues that may help understand the process of drug addiction in man.