Specialists of the research Institute of SCRIPPS has developed a “cure” that allows you to defeat the urge to smoke, told the journal Science Advances. Scientists have developed an enzyme that destroys nicotine and reducing cravings for Smoking to almost zero.
The authors of the new study used the concept of getting rid of nicotine addiction by preventing contact of nicotine in the brain. This principle recently was named one of the most promising methods of treatment of dependence on Smoking. But such a tool that would simultaneously be effective and did not provoke changes in the psyche and well-being, create up to this point did not work.
This time, scientists developed an enzyme NicA2-J1 version natural enzyme that is linked to the activity of bacteria Pseudomonas putida. It turned out that the substance reduces the dependence on nicotine without painful withdrawal symptoms and with minimal side effects.
According to scientists, during the first studies, it became clear that NicA2-J1 decomposes into the body, nicotine is almost completely – leaving only some residue, protect against withdrawal syndrome.
“This is a unique property of the enzyme NicA2-J1. It decomposes the amount of nicotine sufficient to reduce the level of dependence and leaves as much as necessary so as not to have traction,” said in this regard, associate Professor SCRIPPS institution of Oceanography Olivier George.
Biologists have been successfully tested on mice. Now scientists plan to begin testing the enzyme on people.
Earlier Magicforum wrote about how parents ‘ Smoking affects the intelligence of children.