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This is Scientific Americans. Science Quickly. I'm Karen Hupkin.

We all have our tricks for sobering up after a night of drunken revelry. Maybe a pot of black coffee. or an ice-cold shower.

But for mice in a certain lab in Texas, all it takes is a shot.

No, not more alcohol.

It's an injection of a hormone called fibroblast growth factor 21, or FGF21.

A new study shows that a shot of FGF21, a hormone that regulates metabolic pathways,

gets intoxicated mice up and running, twice as fast as animals that are allowed to come

around on their own.

What's more?

Mice lacking FGF21 drink more and take longer to recover from alcohol's effects than

their hormonally competent counterparts. The findings appear in the journal, cell metabolism.

The genesis of this particular project was the finding from several laboratories that this

particular hormone that we work on FGF21 is induced dramatically

by ethanol. We wanted to know what does FGF21 do acutely in terms of response to ethanol.

Steve Cleaver is a professor of molecular biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

I run a lap jointly with this fellow.

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