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TA-CD is a vaccine developed by the Xenova Group and designed to negate the effects of cocaine, making it suitable for use in treatment of addiction.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 15 relations: Antibody, BBC News, Blood–brain barrier, Cholera, Cocaine, Dopamine, Mesolimbic pathway, Nicotine vaccine, Norcocaine, Phases of clinical research, Protein, Reward system, Substance dependence, TA-NIC, Vaccine.

  2. Cocaine
  3. Vaccines against drugs

Antibody

An antibody (Ab) is the secreted form of a B cell receptor; the term immunoglobulin (Ig) can refer to either the membrane-bound form or the secreted form of the B cell receptor, but they are, broadly speaking, the same protein, and so the terms are often treated as synonymous.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Blood–brain barrier

The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a highly selective semipermeable border of endothelial cells that regulates the transfer of solutes and chemicals between the circulatory system and the central nervous system, thus protecting the brain from harmful or unwanted substances in the blood.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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Cocaine

Cocaine (from, from, ultimately from Quechua: kúka) is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant.

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Dopamine

Dopamine (DA, a contraction of 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is a neuromodulatory molecule that plays several important roles in cells.

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Mesolimbic pathway

The mesolimbic pathway, sometimes referred to as the reward pathway, is a dopaminergic pathway in the brain.

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Nicotine vaccine

Nicotine vaccine is a novel immunological strategy for treating nicotine addiction. TA-CD and nicotine vaccine are vaccines against drugs.

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Norcocaine

Norcocaine is a minor metabolite of cocaine. TA-CD and Norcocaine are cocaine.

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Phases of clinical research

The phases of clinical research are the stages in which scientists conduct experiments with a health intervention to obtain sufficient evidence for a process considered effective as a medical treatment.

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Reward system

The reward system (the mesocorticolimbic circuit) is a group of neural structures responsible for incentive salience (i.e., "wanting"; desire or craving for a reward and motivation), associative learning (primarily positive reinforcement and classical conditioning), and positively-valenced emotions, particularly ones involving pleasure as a core component (e.g., joy, euphoria and ecstasy).

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Substance dependence

Substance dependence, also known as drug dependence, is a biopsychological situation whereby an individual's functionality is dependent on the necessitated re-consumption of a psychoactive substance because of an adaptive state that has developed within the individual from psychoactive substance consumption that results in the experience of withdrawal and that necessitates the re-consumption of the drug.

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TA-NIC

TA-NIC is a proprietary vaccine in development similar to TA-CD but being used to create human anti-nicotine antibodies in a person to destroy nicotine in the human body so that it is no longer effective. TA-CD and tA-NIC are vaccine stubs, vaccines and vaccines against drugs.

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Vaccine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease. TA-CD and vaccine are vaccines.

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See also

Cocaine

Vaccines against drugs

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TA-CD

Also known as Cocaine vaccine.