Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto
Alcohol at moderate dose stimulates Met-enkephalin release in rat nucleus accumbens
Published in Mental Health Business Week, January 7th, 2006
"Pharmacological studies have implicated the endogenous opioid system in mediating alcohol intake. Other evidence has shown that alcohol administration can influence opioid activity," researchers in Canada explained.
"In this regard, the majority of studies have concentrated on endorphinergic systems, whereas other opioid systems have been granted comparably less attention," noted P.W. Marinelli and colleagues at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. "This is the case despite some compelling evidence that has implicated enkephalinergic peptide...
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