Neuropharmacology of Ethanol
Author | : KOOB |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1475713053 |
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Author | : KOOB |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1475713053 |
Author | : Kathleen A. Grant |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2019-03-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3319965239 |
This volume gives an overview of new insights to alcohol pharmacology using DREADDs (Designer Receptors and Unraveling the Neuropharmacology of Alcohol). It examines which pharmacological principles should be applied to understanding DREADDs taking into account some very current research. Additionally, this book covers important topics under the heading of “experimental pharmacology” and alcohol.
Author | : Henri Begleiter |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Alcohol |
ISBN | : 9780195100945 |
This is a comprehensive review of the pharmacological effects of alcohol and the mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of alcoholism. The book draws on general pharmacology, neuropharmacology, and alcohol studies to explore its theme. The second volume in the ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM series, it focuses on the pharmacologic mechanisms underlying the development of alcoholism. The first section on basic pharmacology is concerned with those aspects that are common to all of alcohol's effects. These include pharmacokinetics, general metabolism, and cross-tolerance. The second section on neuropharmacology describes the effects of alcohol on various brain functions, including circulation and metabolism. The third section provides an in-depth review of the neurobiology of physical dependence, withdrawal, and physiological tolerance. The book as a whole gives a comprehensive and authoritative picture of the complex pharmacologic actions of alcohol, particularly on the nervous system. For clinicians and researchers in the field of alcohol and alcoholism, it will serve as a fundamental reference.
Author | : Edward Majchrowicz |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1468475290 |
A number of excellent symposia, reviews and monographs on the biology of ethanol have been published during the last decade. Al though it may appear that another such publication may be superflu ous, the subject of alcohol abuse is still open for further explora tion and the field of the biochemical pharmacology of ethanol is in its infancy. This is evidenced, for example, by the unavailability of any drugs that are designed specifically for the treatment of alcohol intoxication or alcohol addiction. The impetus for this publication was generated by a spontane ous enthusiasm following the symposium on BiochemicaZ Ph~acoZogy of EthanoZ that was organized at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, Division of Biological Chemistry in August 1973 in Chicago. It was the first symposium on such a topic ever in cluded in the program of that large society of American chemists. The original aim of the symposium was to acquaint the members of the society with some basic facts about the biological chemistry of ethanol. The symposium included seven papers and covered a rela tively narrow range of ethanol biochemistry. In view of the enthu siasm shown at the Chemical Society meeting, the panelists decided to publish the program and to amplify it by inclusion of additional topics which have remained relatively unexplored in earlier publica tions. In addition, reviews have been included which discuss old topics from a new perspective.
Author | : Richard A. Deitrich |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1995-12-21 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780849383892 |
This book dissects the effects of ethanol on the major neurotransmitter systems affected by ethanol and correlates these actions with the behavioral consequences. The subject is approached first from the perspective of the neurochemical system and the behaviors resulting from ethanol's effects on that system. The behaviors themselves are discussed in later chapters. Some older theories of the effects of ethanol such as the membrane fluidization hypothesis are evaluated in light of new and updated information. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) as well as the structural damage in the brain by long term ethanol exposure are also discussed.
Author | : Stefanie Rassnick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Alcoholism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ronald Ross Watson |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1992-06-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780849379369 |
Public attention and research efforts are being driven by an ever- increasing understanding of the problems and magnitude of alcohol abuse, particularly its neurological consequences. Two out of three high school students report that they used alcohol during the previous month. This continuing source of potential abusers, plus 10 million alcohol-abusing adults, along with the several million abusers of other drugs, costs the people of the U.S. more than $200 billion in lost wages, health care, theft, and shortened life span. An intimate, detailed knowledge of the effects of alcohol on the biochemical reactions and neurological changes is critical in preventing or treating abuse. We must study the mechanisms of ethanol's effects on the neurological system at a cellular and systematic level to understand its actions. These include modifications of hormonal regulation and production with major functional consequences. The progress of research over the past decade is encouraging as we begin to summarize and evaluate in detail advances in understanding changes in the biochemistry and physiology caused by ethanol. This information will assist the researcher, clinician, and student in comprehending the complex changes caused by direct and indirect effects of single drugs at the cellular level.
Author | : Elio Acquas |
Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2018-07-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 2889455165 |
Ethanol, the main psychopharmacologically active ingredient of alcoholic drinks, represents a paradigmatic example of a research subject intrinsically able to perpetually self-generate interdisciplinary cutting-edge investigations. This eBook was inspired by the aim of providing an up-to-date characterization of the diverse effects of ethanol, of the possible mechanisms of action on different intracellular systems as well as of the hypothesized actions of ethanol and/or its metabolites on various neurotransmitters and neuromodulators. Indeed, the eBook provides a factual example of an excellent synthesis on the complex relationship between ethanol and its main biologically active metabolites (Chapter 1), on the behavioral and molecular consequences of early exposure to them (Chapter 2), on the recent proposals, advanced by the preclinical research, for new therapeutic approaches to distinct aspects of alcoholism (Chapter 3) and on the most recent and original preclinical evidence of the interactions between ethanol and/or its metabolites and the dopaminergic, adenosinergic and endocannabinoidergic systems (Chapter 4). Overall we believe that this eBook accomplishes its main goals of widening the perspective on this research subject and offering the readership a newer and, simultaneously, up-to-date and comprehensive scenery on ethanol’s and ethanol's active metabolites neurophysiological and behavioral effects.
Author | : Edward Majchrowicz |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1979-09-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780306401305 |
Alcohol abuse and alcoholism represents one of the major health, social, and economic issues facing not only America but much of the world. Problems with alcohol appear to be a common curse, afflicting almost all industrialized nations as well as the developing countries. at least 10 million people suffer the misuse. It is In the United States today of estimated that 205,000 individuals die prematurely each year from a variety ethanol-induced factors, including cirrhosis, cancer, heart disease, suicide, homi cide, and highway fatalities and other accidents. In purely economic terms, the alcohol-related cost to our society in 1975 is estimated at nearly $43 billion in lost production, medical expenses, motor vehicle accidents, fire losses, and the maintenance of social mechanisms to deal with these problems. But the economic impact pales in comparision with the psychological pain and anguish brought to alcoholics and their family and friends. The disease of alcoholism bears a close relation to the topic of our dedication, for it is equally insidious and sadistic, it destroys humanity and rational thought, and it brings terror, pain, and death.