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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
14
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-7-21
pubmed:abstractText
Heroin addiction is a wide-reaching problem with a spectrum of damaging social consequences. A vaccine capable of blocking heroin's effects could provide a long-lasting and sustainable adjunct to heroin addiction therapy. Heroin, however, presents a particularly challenging immunotherapeutic target, as it is metabolized to multiple psychoactive molecules. To reconcile this dilemma, we examined the idea of a singular vaccine with the potential to display multiple drug-like antigens; thus two haptens were synthesized, one heroin-like and another morphine-like in chemical structure. A key feature in this approach is that immunopresentation with the heroin-like hapten is thought to be immunochemically dynamic such that multiple haptens are simultaneously presented to the immune system. We demonstrate the significance of this approach through the extremely rapid generation of robust polyclonal antibody titers with remarkable specificity. Importantly, both the antinociceptive effects of heroin and acquisition of heroin self-administration were blocked in rats vaccinated using the heroin-like hapten.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1520-4804
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
28
pubmed:volume
54
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5195-204
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Antibody Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Drug Carriers, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Haptens, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Hemocyanin, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Heroin, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Heroin Dependence, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Hot Temperature, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Immunoconjugates, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Male, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Molecular Structure, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Morphine, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Narcotics, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Pain, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Psychotropic Drugs, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Rats, Wistar, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Recurrence, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Self Administration, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Serum Albumin, Bovine, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Structure-Activity Relationship, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Touch, pubmed-meshheading:21692508-Vaccines
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
A vaccine strategy that induces protective immunity against heroin.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural