Light-activated drugs provide localized medicine without side effects

Photo: Team led by Professor Francisco Ciruela. Credit: UB-IDIBELL-UBNeuro. Article by University of Barcelona. Medical Xpress – September 9, 2021.

Photopharmacology is an emerging area of science based on the development of photosensitive drugs, that is, drugs that activate with light. A team from IDIBELL and the University of Barcelona has worked on two treatments based on this innovative technology: a morphine derivative that does not create addiction and a new treatment against psoriasis. The same group has used this technology to determine the role of adenosine in pain transmission. […]

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