Tag: College of Medicine

Dr. Steven Coughlin Appointed to Editorial Boards of Medical and Epidemiologic Journals

Written by Steven Coughlin

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Dr. Steven Coughlin, a Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Director of the Research Core for the University of Tennessee College of Medicine’s Research Center on Health Disparities, Equity, and the Exposome, has been appointed to the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health Care, the International Journal of… Read More

PNAS publishes an article from Bukiya et al., on the first time identification of an alcohol-recognition site in BK ion channel proteins

Written by Alejandro Dopico

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Research

Decades-long investigations throughout the world have documented that ethanol-induced modification of ion currents mediated by BK channels modify physiology and behavior. A recent paper published by Drs. Bukiya and Dopico in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences unveils and characterizes an ethanol-recognition site in the BK channel-forming protein itself,  a finding that will… Read More