Alcohol Use Disorder: From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutics
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 41
Special Issue Editor
Interests: addiction biology; toxicology; clinical biochemistry; genetics and molecular biology; neurobiology of alcohol use disorders
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chronic and heavy alcohol consumption is a serious threat to human health. Alcohol and its metabolites can alter several crucial functional aspects of the human organism, from the neurocircuitry of addiction to other molecular factors responsible for regulating gene expression, as well as organ damage caused by reiterated alcohol consumption. Additionally, particular focus should be given to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, which are caused by alcohol consumption during the gestational period.
This Special Issue will focus on all these molecular mechanisms in detail in order to deepen our understanding of how alcohol works in the body. This increased awareness will make it easier to conceive of new therapeutic strategies aimed not only at treating the cellular and molecular damage caused by alcohol, but also at eradicating the molecular roots of addiction.
Dr. Giampiero Ferraguti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- alcohol
- addiction
- FASD
- alcohol-related damage
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