These studies also reported significant increases in DAT binding following NAC treatment, with mean differences of 0.15 in the caudate ( p = 0.014) and 0.12 in the putamen ( p = 0.039) (Monti et al
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In animal experiments on such drugs, studies on rodents have found that the GLP-1RAs may promote the development of medullary thyroid carcinoma, but this effect has not been observed in non-human primates [23]