Sobering shift.

• Autores: Sally Lehrman
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 290, Nº. 4, 2004, págs. 22-24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Discusses how scientists are investigating how the effects of alcohol differ among people in order to find clues regarding alcohol's addictive qualities. Exploration of the interaction of alcohol with various genes and the associated biological pathways; Consideration of research by neurobiologist Steven McIntire regarding the resistance of the worm Caenorhabditis to alcohol's behavioral effects; Findings that the gene slo-1 may determine sensitivity to alcohol as well as a means for intoxication; Analysis of Native American families with varying levels of alcoholism by David Goldman, chief of the neurogenetics laboratory at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.