Three Neuronal Growth Factors May Be Key To Understanding Alcohol''s Effects

... Growth factors are a large and diverse group of polypeptides critical for the development of the central nervous system. A symposium at the June 2005 annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism in Santa Barbara, California focused on three growth factors - insulin, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) - that may also play an important role in the regulation of the behavioral effects of alcohol... click link for more info. ...