Pakistahi Scientist wins laurels in US
LAHORE:A PAKISTANI scientist working in United States, Dr Najila Taslim has discovered a new unique functional interaction between the two most widely consumed psychoactive substances, nicotine and ethanol. Dr Taslim recently earned her PhD in ‘Pharmacology & Toxicology’ from East Carolina University (ECU), USA. Her thesis is titled “The role of nicotine acetylcholine receptor in nicotine-ethanol interaction and cross tolerance: Functional correlation with cerebellar nitric oxide.” She was the first international student in the PhD programme at East Carolina University to work in this crucially important field of neuroscience.
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