Cancer-Treating Drugs May Help Reduce Alcoholism-Related Anxiety
"Current trends in the neuroscience field, particularly in alcohol research, indicate that drugs which are used to treat various types of cancer, such as HDAC inhibitors, appear to be very important in regulating brain function," said Subhash C. Pandey, Ph.D., professor and director of the Alcohol Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "The data presented in the symposium by me and other investigators, will clearly indicate that various kinds of HDAC inhibitors are important in regulating the anxiety that develops during alcohol withdrawal as well as alcohol intake. It might thereby be important in treating and preventing alcohol addiction." Pandey will present his research at the 39th Annual Research Society on Alcoholism in New Orleans June 25-29, 2016. Pandey performed the experiments using an animal model during which rodents were exposed to alcohol for a long period of time. During a withdrawal period of 24 hours, one alcohol-exposed grou...