Drunken fruit flies help scientists find potential drug target for alcoholism
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 12:42
in Health & Medicine
A group of drunken fruit flies have helped researchers from North Carolina State and Boston universities identify entire networks of genes -also present in humans -that play a key role in alcohol drinking behavior. This discovery, published in the October 2009 print issue of the journal GENETICS, provides a crucial explanation of why some people seem to tolerate alcohol better than others, as well as a potential target for drugs aimed at preventing or eliminating alcoholism. In addition, this discovery sheds new light on many of the negative side effects of drinking, such as liver damage.
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