| Chapter title |
Transcriptional Regulators as Targets for Alcohol Pharmacotherapies
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 101 |
| Book title |
The Neuropharmacology of Alcohol
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| Published in |
Handbook of experimental pharmacology, January 2018
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| DOI | 10.1007/164_2018_101 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-996522-2, 978-3-31-996523-9
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| Authors |
Antonia M. Savarese, Amy W. Lasek |
| Abstract |
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a chronic relapsing brain disease that currently afflicts over 15 million adults in the United States. Despite its prevalence, there are only three FDA-approved medications for AUD treatment, all of which show limited efficacy. Because of their ability to alter expression of a large number of genes, often with great cell-type and brain-region specificity, transcription factors and epigenetic modifiers serve as promising new targets for the development of AUD treatments aimed at the neural circuitry that underlies chronic alcohol abuse. In this chapter, we will discuss transcriptional regulators that can be targeted pharmacologically and have shown some efficacy in attenuating alcohol consumption when targeted. Specifically, the transcription factors cyclic AMP-responsive element binding protein (CREB), peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs), nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB), and glucocorticoid receptor (GR), as well as the epigenetic enzymes, the DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs), will be discussed. |
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