CREB, alcohol and anxiety
CREB, alcohol, and anxiety By Kerry Grens ARTICLE EXTRAS 1 Another quality of the rats interested Subhash Pandey of the University of Illinois at Chicago. "When they drink alcohol," Pandey says, "their anxiety disappears." Pandey wanted to find out what was responsible. He turned to CREB and one of its targets, neuropeptide Y (NPY), a potent, endogenous anxiolytic compound. Heilig, when he was a postdoc with George Koob at the Scripps Research Institute, had shown that N

Jun 1, 2007
CREB, alcohol, and anxiety
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