Insulin but not insulin growth factor-1 correlates with craving in currently drinking alcohol-dependent patients

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 450-458

  Leggio, Lorenzo ^a,c   Ferrulli, Anna ^a   Malandrino, Noemi ^a   Miceli, Antonio ^b   Capristo, Esmeralda ^a   Gasbarrini, Giovanni ^a   Addolorato, Giovanni ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alcohol Dependence; C Peptide; Craving; IGF 1; Insulin

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C PEPTIDE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; INSULIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DRINKING SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 39749095228     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2007.00589.x     Document Type: Article

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