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JANUARY 16, 2023

Hope Emerges for Development of a Vaccine Aimed at Fentanyl Overdose Crisis


Originally published by our sister publication Pain Medicine News

By Myles Starr

Data from a new study indicate that an immunoconjugate vaccine reduces the antinociceptive, behavioral and physiologic effects of fentanyl, in experimental rats.

The vaccine is composed of a fentanyl-like hapten that includes a linker with a carboxyl moiety suitable for carbodiimide coupling chemistry in order to create amide bonds with lysine residues on the carrier protein CRM197—a genetically deactivated