Meatball
12-13-2003, 01:13 PM
they just invented a pill that instantly sobers you up..no more drunken women, drivers, pilots or Kennedys.
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WASHINGTON : A chill pill is a step away to instantly sober you down after a booze-fuelled
Christmas party.
Scientists at University of California - San Francisco 's Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center have identified a single brain protein that can account for most of the intoxicating effects of alcohol. The finding pinpoints perhaps the best target yet for a drug to block alcohol's effect and potentially treat alcoholism.
The mechanisms by which alcohol acts on the brain are thought to be similar throughout the animal kingdom, since species from worms and fruit flies to mice and humans all become intoxicated at similar alcohol concentrations.
Researchers already knew that the gene known as slo-1 codes for a channel-like protein in the brain that can allow potassium ions to pour out of neurons, a normal process that temporarily slows down the neuron's activity.
In the study, the scientists discovered that alcohol makes the channel open more frequently, depressing neuron activity and leading to sluggish, uncoordinated movement typical of intoxication.
full article here (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/354794.cms)
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WASHINGTON : A chill pill is a step away to instantly sober you down after a booze-fuelled
Christmas party.
Scientists at University of California - San Francisco 's Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center have identified a single brain protein that can account for most of the intoxicating effects of alcohol. The finding pinpoints perhaps the best target yet for a drug to block alcohol's effect and potentially treat alcoholism.
The mechanisms by which alcohol acts on the brain are thought to be similar throughout the animal kingdom, since species from worms and fruit flies to mice and humans all become intoxicated at similar alcohol concentrations.
Researchers already knew that the gene known as slo-1 codes for a channel-like protein in the brain that can allow potassium ions to pour out of neurons, a normal process that temporarily slows down the neuron's activity.
In the study, the scientists discovered that alcohol makes the channel open more frequently, depressing neuron activity and leading to sluggish, uncoordinated movement typical of intoxication.
full article here (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/354794.cms)
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