Addiction Medicine
Tolerance to inhalants may be caused by changes in gene expression
Published in Mental Health Weekly Digest, October 29th, 2007
The team, led by graduate student Yan Wang, used the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system to determine how the nervous system becomes tolerant to sedation with organic solvent inhalants.
The team's work appears in the October 16 issue of Public Library of Science-Biology.
"Drug tolerance causes the user to consume more of the drug, speeding them down the path of addiction," said Nigel Atkinson, an associate...
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