Facilitated By

San Antonio Medical Foundation

Trending Research

Top viewed research performed by San Antonio Bioscience Organizations


Co-abuse of cocaine and alcohol is one of the most common, and dangerous drug pairings, as evidenced bytheir concurrent use being a major cause for emergency hospitalization. Thus, this drug combination is notonly a serious health threat to the individual user, but a major public health burden. Currently, there are noeffective treatments for addiction to cocaine and ethanol, underscoring the vital need to understand themechanistic basis of this highly addictive drug pairing in order to discover new targets for therapeuticintervention.

UT Health San Antonio
Daws, Lynette C

Cerebral Small Vessel Disease (SVD) is an important, potentially modifiable factor for clinical dementia. Recent data suggest that the age-specific incidence of dementia may be decreasing, partly as a result of bettermanagement of vascular risk factors, lending urgency to dementia prevention trials but a major impediment isthe absence of circulating biomarkers for tracking onset and progression of SVD.

UT Health San Antonio
Seshadri, Sudha