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Molecular ‘connector’ helps cocaine latch on to brain cells, even when drug is in low doses
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Molecular ‘connector’ helps cocaine latch on to brain cells, even when drug is in low doses

by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists have long known that cocaine works by latching on to molecular connectors on the surface of brain cells, allowing dopamine, a chemical that promotes feelings of pleasure and reward, to accumulate in the space between brain cells. Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say...