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Ants get addicted to morphine 1
#23712046 - 10/06/16 02:50 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7622/full/537589d.html
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28 September 2016
Ants get hooked on morphine much like humans do, showing similar changes in behaviour and brain chemistry.
Until now, only mammals have been shown to seek out addictive drugs in the absence of a concurrent natural reward such as sugar. Brian Entler, Timothy Cannon and Marc Seid at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania provided the ant Camponotus floridanus (pictured) with sugar water laced with the drug, then, over the course of several days, reduced the sugar concentration to zero while increasing the morphine level. The team then gave the ants a choice between sugar water and a sugar-free morphine solution. Of the ants exposed to morphine, 65% preferred the drug — roughly twice the rate seen in unexposed animals. The brains of morphine-trained ants also showed elevated levels of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with reward.
The authors suggest that ants could be used as a model to study addiction in humans.
J. Exp. Biol. 219, 2865–2869 (2016)
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Do the ants still do ant things while they are addicted, or do they go solo?
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Re: Ants get addicted to morphine [Re: PatrickKn]
#23713028 - 10/06/16 12:19 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Just as long as it won't black ants.... Don't want to hear about THAT conspiracy theory.
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Re: Ants get addicted to morphine [Re: klhouse]
#23714379 - 10/06/16 08:44 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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freaky, I would like to find out what their behavior long term would look like
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Re: Ants get addicted to morphine [Re: pthorne]
#23714853 - 10/07/16 12:24 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Can you give them the ANTidote? or the ant-i-dope?
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Re: Ants get addicted to morphine [Re: PatrickKn]
#23716946 - 10/07/16 04:39 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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PatrickKn said: Do the ants still do ant things while they are addicted, or do they go solo? 
They don't feed themselves, anymore.
Just saying.
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Re: Ants get addicted to morphine [Re: durian_2008]
#23718153 - 10/07/16 11:36 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Do the ants start breaking into each others places and pawning their neighbors larvae?
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Cognitive_Shift said: Do the ants start breaking into each others places and pawning their neighbors larvae?
not untill the queen ant bans it.
Untill then its just increased worker production, and a happy healthy familly.
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Re: Ants get addicted to morphine [Re: LIBERTYNY]
#23718376 - 10/08/16 03:03 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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LIBERTYNY said:
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Cognitive_Shift said: Do the ants start breaking into each others places and pawning their neighbors larvae?
not untill the queen ant bans it.
Untill then its just increased worker production, and a happy healthy familly.
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did they nod and everything?
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Re: Ants get addicted to morphine [Re: Connoisseur]
#23764198 - 10/23/16 12:47 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ants are also supposedly one of the few non-mammalian creatures which show promise in passing the mirror test. So apparently there's a lot of surprises within their consciousness.
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Re: Ants get addicted to morphine [Re: Magick]
#23764241 - 10/23/16 01:04 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Ants get addicted to morphine [Re: ballsalsa]
#23768447 - 10/24/16 09:56 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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ballsalsa said: hell, some ants have agriculture
Ants farm aphids, aphids love to eat poppy foliage,the ants follow the aphids and drink the 'honey dew' left behind by the aphids.
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