People with alcohol dependency lack important enzyme
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - 05:21
in Health & Medicine
A research group under the leadership of Linköping University Professor Markus Heilig has identified an enzyme whose production is turned off in nerve cells of the frontal lobe when alcohol dependence develops. The deficiency in this enzyme leads to continued use of alcohol despite adverse consequences. The discovery is now published in the number-one ranked […]