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Cocaine Causes Dopamine Reuptake In Crickets To Be Blocked

This article was written with the help of Macquarie University and relevant staff who assisted in providing the apparatus, methods etc. for the data collection.

Abstract
In an attempt to examine the effects of cocaine on dopamine and horizontal locomotor activity, an experiment was conducted on Acheta domestica (crickets). In a double-blind design 121 crickets were randomly assigned to groups before baseline data collection commence. After which, they were then injected with either cocaine or saline only (vehicle). In both the pre and post-treatment timeframes horizontal locomotor activity was measured for twenty minutes. Statistically significant results were found to exist between the saline and cocaine groups, with the cocaine group displaying a much higher amount of horizontal locomotor activity than their counterparts. These results suggest, as is supported by other evidence, that cocaine blocks the Dopamine Transporter.

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posted by Ewan Williams
November 4, 2009

The Lockerbie Tragedy – Flight 103

In 1988 many horrific events occurred but our focus in this article will be on just one of these – a Pan American airlines flight en route from London to New York suddenly broke up in the air at just after 7pm on December 21st while at an altitude of 31,000 feet above Western Scotland. While the vast majority of you may not remember the actual event, one tends to believe that the second the name ‘Lockerbie’ is thrown into the mix the severity and heinous nature of the event may jog a few memories.

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