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...study by Bertha K. Madras, associate professor of psychobiology at Harvard Medical School, reveals that nitrogen is not a required element of drugs working in the brain...
Madras and her co-authors found a group of drugs without nitrogen that recognizes the same molecular targets as nitrogen-containing drugs...
These experimental drugs also appear to be as powerful as the ones that contain nitrogen...
Madras said she did not set out to test the assumption that nitrogen is required for all compounds designed for use in the brain. Rather, she was trying to find a treatment for cocaine addiction...
...replacing the nitrogen atom with an oxygen atom, researchers found that the new compounds bound specifically to dopamine transporters as well as other transporters in the brain such as serotonin and norepinephrine...