Sydney Uni GHB findings

July 18, 2012

PHARMACEUTICAL researchers from the University of Sydney have helped discover where the party drug known as GHB or ‘fantasy’ binds to a special brain protein - highlighting the potential for an antidote to the sometimes deadly substance. The findings, part of a partnership with the University of Copenhagen, have been published in the US Proceedings of the National Academy of Science journal. Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid latches onto a specific protein receptor known as a GABAA according to Prof Mary Collins from Sydney Uni’s pharmacy faculty. “We have identified an important unknown target that can provide the basis for explaining the biological significance of the transmitter substance,” she said. “This opens up new and exciting research opportunities for us”. The drug is extremely toxic, because the difference between a normal intoxicating dose and a fatal dose is so small, Collins added.

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