Do the drinking motives of adolescents mediate the link between their parents' drinking habits and their own alcohol use?
The results of this study suggest that drinking habits of parents are not responsible for the widely reported link between the alcohol use of parents and their offspring, per se. Rather, results suggest that parental drinking shapes the drinking motives of adolescent children, which, in turn, influences adolescent alcohol use.
For the first time, we have shown that HBP, in addition to its known augmentation of the proinflammatory response of monocytes, also acts as a prosurvival protein for neutrophils themselves, and thereby enhances local host defense.