Posted by medlib on October 15, 2000, at 0:20:55
In reply to New Benzo Research-help minus sedation,addiction? » Phil , posted by Noa on October 13, 2000, at 14:16:15
Phil, Noa--
I just came across another summary of the same article in a Medscape newsletter.
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/reuters/prof/2000/10/10.09/20001006scie001.html
Registration shouldn't be required to access this one, but it may not be quite as readable as the Science mag one. I don't know why the URL wouldn't hyperlink, but it can be copy/pasted.Info looks promising.--medlib
>Phil, I just found the article about this research. It is in the current (October 6, 2000, vol 290) issue of Science. On page 23 there is a news article about it (for us lay folks) and on page 131 is the research report. I don't know about others, but I think this is big news. Here is the summary from the online site for Science magazine:
>
> NEUROSCIENCE:
> A Possible Target for Better Benzodiazepines
>
> Laura Helmuth
>
> Pharmacologists have tried for years to distill the desirable effects of
> benzodiazepines from the undesirable ones; now a team of neuroscientists has
> shown that such a strategy could well succeed. Benzodiazepines work by
> amplifying the action of the neurotransmitter GABA, the brain's main "off" switch,
> and in work described on page 131, a group has pinpointed one particular
> subtype of the GABA receptor as the source of benzodiazepines'
> anxiety-reducing powers.
>
> The url for this summary is:
>
> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/290/5489/23b?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=benzodiazepines++valium&searchid=QID_NOT_SET&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=&fdate=10/1/2000&tdate=10/31/2000
>
> Unfortunately, registration is required to get into their site, and a subscription is required to read the full text. I read the old fashioned way--at the good ole bricks and mortar public library.
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