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Associated Press - June 19, 2009 2:44 PM ET
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) - An Idaho State University researcher looking for gender-specific differences in how alcohol affects the brain says experiments on rats appear to show physiological stress responses are much higher in females.
Dan Selvage, an assistant professor of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences, is conducting a 5-year study with a $1.1 million grant recently received from the National Institute of Health.
He says the findings are significant because consistently high levels of stress hormones can mask the body's natural feedback and create stress-related disorders.
Selvage says the study could lead to gender-specific treatments for alcohol abuse in humans.
Information from: Idaho State Journal, http://www.journalnet.com
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