Cocaine addiction: clues from Drosophila on drugs.
Recent studies have shown that the fruitfly Drosophila exhibits behavioral sensitization in response to repeated exposure to cocaine; the exploitation of this genetically tractable model system for studying cocaine addiction is already providing new clues that may help understand the process of drug addiction in man.
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Department of Neuroscience, The Chicago Medical School, 3333 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, Illinois, 60064-3095, USA.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D002395:Catecholamines / Q000502:physiology; D003042:Cocaine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000633:toxicity; D019970:Cocaine-Related Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004330:Drosophila / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans
D002395:Catecholamines; D003042:Cocaine