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Obese Rats Successfully Treated With Addiction Drug (Medical News Today) |
US scientists testing the epilepsy drug vigabatrin (GVG) as a potential treatment for drug addiction, discovered that it also led to rapid weight loss and reduced food intake in genetically bred obese rats. The discovery by scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, is published in the 20 August advance online issue of the journal Synapse.
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