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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2020
Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ (US);
The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate, Denver, CO (US);
Thomas M. Keck, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Christopher A. Lowry, Boulder, CO (US);
Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ (US);
The Regents of the University of Colorado, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating, ameliorating, and/or preventing cocaine addiction in a subject. Immunization byalters serotonin signaling in the brain, reducing stress- and anxiety-like responding in animal models of post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety disorders. In certain embodiments, the immunoregulatory, anti-stress, and anxiolytic effects ofimmunization reduces addiction- and relapse-like responding in models of cocaine addiction and alter the development of cocaine-induced neuroinflammation.