Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase β/ζ and alcohol use disorder: A Commentary.

The need to find new pharmacological targets for treating alcohol use disorder (AUD) has been an extensive effort in alcohol research. Changes in immune function due to AUD may represent an exploitable target for developing new medications to treat AUD, since the cytotoxic effect of alcohol has shown to alter the expression of inflammatory mediators in the periphery and in the central nervous system (CNS).