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The appetite-regulating peptide leptin influences alcohol craving for some alcoholics

  • Craving is an important contributor to the development and maintenance of alcoholism.
  • New findings show that appetite-regulating peptides leptin and ghrelin influence alcohol craving.
  • Leptins influence on craving is especially notable among patients of Leschs Type 1 and 2.
Craving defined as a powerful urge to drink, or intense thoughts about alcohol is an important contributor to the development and maintenance of alcoholism. Recent research suggests that appetite-regulating hormones and peptides may be involved in the neurobiology of alcohol craving. A new study has confirmed that appetite-regulating peptides leptin and ghrelin do indeed influence alcohol craving, but especially among certain subtypes of alcoholics.

Results are published in the June issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.

We chose to examine leptin and ghrelin because both peptides are of high importance in appetite regulation and both have already been subject to former investigations, said Thomas Hillemacher, assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University Hospital of Erlangen, Germany. However, these former investigations have shown contradictory results which may have been due to their use of samples of alcoholics without specifying subgroups. This raised the idea of investigating these peptides in specific subtypes of alcohol dependence. Hillemacher is also the corresponding author for the study.

There exist four different mechanisms of craving, which can lead to relapse, explained Otto Lesch, professor of psychiatry at the University of Vienna. We know that these four different mechanisms are caused by different biological mechanisms. They have different long-term courses and they profit significantly differently from different pharmaceutical compounds. Therefore, it is very important to define basic workings of these different
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