Drug shared by addicts seems to protect against HIV brain dementia
Saturday, April 17, 2010 - 04:21
in Health & Medicine
To their surprise, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Centre (GUMC) have discovered that morphine (a derivate of the opium poppy that is similar to heroin) protects rat neurones against HIV toxicity - a finding they say might help in the design of new neuroprotective therapies for patients with the infection...