Drug shared by addicts seems to protect against HIV brain dementia
Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 18:50
in Health & Medicine
To their surprise, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have discovered that morphine (a derivate of the opium poppy that is similar to heroin) protects rat neurons against HIV toxicity - a finding they say might help in the design of new neuroprotective therapies for patients with the infection.