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Moms’ high-fat, sugary diets may lead to heavy offspring with a taste for alcohol, sensitivity to drugs
Vulnerability to alcohol and drug abuse may begin in the womb and be linked to how much fat and sugar a mother eats during pregnancy according to Dr. Nicole Avena, a research neuroscientist with UF’s McKnight Brain Institute.
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UF Researchers Find Clues to Nicotine Addiction
Key molecule is linked to depressive symptoms of acute nicotine withdrawal and stress-induced relapse after tobacco cessation. (Photo by Victor Bezrukov, Flickr)…
UF researchers find triggers in cells’ transition from colitis to cancer
University of Florida researchers have grown tumors in mice using cells from inflamed but noncancerous colon tissue taken from human patients, a finding that sheds new light on colon cancer and how it might be prevented.