Methamphetamine Vaccines: Improvement through Hapten Design.

ABSTRACT: Methamphetamine (MA) addiction is a serious public health problem, and current methods to abate addiction and relapse are currently ineffective for mitigating this growing global epidemic. Development of a vaccine targeting MA would provide a complementary strategy to existing behavioral therapies, but this has proven challenging. Herein, we describe optimization of both hapten design and formulation, identifying a vaccine that elicited a robust anti-MA immune response in mice, decreasing methamphetamine-induced locomotor activity.

SUBMITTER: Collins KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5895457 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature