Oxytocin as a novel antagonist of the intoxicating and addictive effects of alcohol

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1108546

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Alcohol is Australia’s most harmful recreational drug and more effective treatments for alcohol abuse are desperately needed. The CIs have shown that administering oxytocin reduces alcohol intoxication and consumption, and prevents alcohol from acting at specific sites in the brain that are central to alcohol’s intoxicating and addictive effects. This project probes the effects of oxytocin at these sites and the potential utility of targeting this interaction to treat alcohol-use disorders.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 01-01-2019

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $739,106.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

alcohol abuse | animal model | electrophysiology | gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors | oxytocin

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