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Technologicaly Advanced Drugs
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anyone else think we will/could use nanotechnology (what if all drugs are a form of nanotechnology) to invent novel "drugs" that would in theory, be able to do friggin amazing things to alter our consciousness, perhaps permanently?
like enlightenment in a pill, or "how to fight" on blotter.
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Re: Technologicaly Advanced Drugs [Re: hTx]
#19190425 - 11/26/13 04:16 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Was recently entertaining the idea of making drugs with extraordinarily long half-lifes. Imagine a heroin high that lasted 6 months.
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Re: Technologicaly Advanced Drugs [Re: s240779]
#19190553 - 11/26/13 05:59 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Recent article states that serotonin agonists make memory more functional. stoned ape theory comes to my mind. what... peace.
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Re: Technologicaly Advanced Drugs [Re: Caddilac]
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hTx said: anyone else think we will/could use nanotechnology (what if all drugs are a form of nanotechnology) to invent novel "drugs" that would in theory, be able to do friggin amazing things to alter our consciousness, perhaps permanently?
like enlightenment in a pill, or "how to fight" on blotter.
How would it work?
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Caddilac said: Recent article states that serotonin agonists make memory more functional. stoned ape theory comes to my mind. what... peace.
I think you misunderstood the study. It stated that while agonism of 5HT receptors does cause improvements to memory / cognitive function, it also leads to down-regulation of the 5HT receptors (like most agonists). The study then went on to show how a 5HT2A antagonist, SR 46349B, did seem to help without the issues of receptor down-regulation.
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hTx said: anyone else think we will/could use nanotechnology (what if all drugs are a form of nanotechnology) to invent novel "drugs" that would in theory, be able to do friggin amazing things to alter our consciousness, perhaps permanently?
like enlightenment in a pill, or "how to fight" on blotter.
How would it work?
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Caddilac said: Recent article states that serotonin agonists make memory more functional. stoned ape theory comes to my mind. what... peace.
I think you misunderstood the study. It stated that while agonism of 5HT receptors does cause improvements to memory / cognitive function, it also leads to down-regulation of the 5HT receptors (like most agonists). The study then went on to show how a 5HT2A antagonist, SR 46349B, did seem to help without the issues of receptor down-regulation.
Link? And do you mean "did seem to help with the issues of receptor down-regulation?
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tymoteusz3 said:
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hTx said: anyone else think we will/could use nanotechnology (what if all drugs are a form of nanotechnology) to invent novel "drugs" that would in theory, be able to do friggin amazing things to alter our consciousness, perhaps permanently?
like enlightenment in a pill, or "how to fight" on blotter.
How would it work?
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Caddilac said: Recent article states that serotonin agonists make memory more functional. stoned ape theory comes to my mind. what... peace.
I think you misunderstood the study. It stated that while agonism of 5HT receptors does cause improvements to memory / cognitive function, it also leads to down-regulation of the 5HT receptors (like most agonists). The study then went on to show how a 5HT2A antagonist, SR 46349B, did seem to help without the issues of receptor down-regulation.
Link? And do you mean "did seem to help with the issues of receptor down-regulation?
*without the issues of receptor down-regulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S107474271300049X
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tymoteusz3 said:
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hTx said: anyone else think we will/could use nanotechnology (what if all drugs are a form of nanotechnology) to invent novel "drugs" that would in theory, be able to do friggin amazing things to alter our consciousness, perhaps permanently?
like enlightenment in a pill, or "how to fight" on blotter.
How would it work?
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Caddilac said: Recent article states that serotonin agonists make memory more functional. stoned ape theory comes to my mind. what... peace.
I think you misunderstood the study. It stated that while agonism of 5HT receptors does cause improvements to memory / cognitive function, it also leads to down-regulation of the 5HT receptors (like most agonists). The study then went on to show how a 5HT2A antagonist, SR 46349B, did seem to help without the issues of receptor down-regulation.
Link? And do you mean "did seem to help with the issues of receptor down-regulation?
*without the issues of receptor down-regulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S107474271300049X
I mean obviously an antagonist won't cause down-regulation...if anything it would be the opposite. Blocking receptors means that they would up-regulate to attempt to compensate for the lack of stimulation. Not very ground breaking
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Well yes antagonization can cause receptor density increase. But the cool thing with the study was the effects on memory antagonization of the 5HT2A receptors had.
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tymoteusz3 said: Well yes antagonization can cause receptor density increase. But the cool thing with the study was the effects on memory antagonization of the 5HT2A receptors had.
Quite interesting. I've studied a lot about NMDA's relationship with memory, but in all my classes I've never really heard of Serotonin playing any role. Thanks for the link
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