Center for Nutrition and Neurotoxicology of Alcohol The Center for Nutrition and Neurotoxicology of Alcohol (CNNA) derives from an internationally recognized strength of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the nutritional and pharmacologic sciences, especially in the development and application of molecular and biochemical approaches to the investigations of drugs, other toxic chemicals, and nutrients, and the prediction of pharmacologic action and toxicity to humans. Current Projects Effects Of Chronic Ethanol Exposure and Thiamine Deficiency on NMDA Receptors Principal Investigator -- David M. Lovinger Nutritional Defenses in the Brain Against Oxidative Stress Caused by Alcohol Principal Investigator -- Raymond F. Burk Molecular Genetic and Biochemical Investigation of Thiamine Transport Principal Investigator -- Charles K. Singleton Nutritional and Pharmacologic Management of Recovery from Alcohol-Induced Brain Injury Principal Investigator -- Peter R. Martin Bibliography of Publications Other Resources Animal and Tissue Core Principal Investigator -- Ford F. Ebner Pilot Projects Program Ford F. Ebner Donald W. Horne James M. May Robert Sachdev Conrad Wagner Informatics Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |Main Page |VUMC |Centers |VARC| Last Modified: Friday, August 9, 1996 webmaster@www.mc.vanderbilt.edu