Ratos à prova de coca?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mice-genetically-modified-cocaine-drug-addiction-research-lab-university-british-columbia-a7577356.html

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“That plasticity allows for the pruning of some neural pathways and the formation of others, enabling the brain to adapt and to learn.

“Ideally, we would need to find a molecule that blocks formation of a memory of a drug-induced high, while not interfering with the ability to remember important things.”

Her colleague, graduate student Andrea Globa, added: “Through genetic engineering, we hard-wired in place the synapses in the reward circuits of these mice.

“By preventing the synapses from strengthening, we prevented the mutant mice from ‘learning’ the memory of cocaine, and thus prevented them from becoming addicted.”