Strange Protein in Brains of Drug Users / Join Together, 7 September 2007
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Cocaine and amphetamine users appear to develop an abnormal protein in their brains that could play a role in addiction. Researchers at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, Ill., found that use of these drugs alters a protein that controls how RNA is copied - an anomaly that could cause structural changes in tissues, diseases, and behaviour changes."
Regulation of Retention of FosB Intron 4 by PTB
PLoS ONE, 2(9): 2007
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Marinescu V, Loomis PA, Ehmann S, Beales M, Potashkin JA