Euphoria from Drinking Alcoholic Beverages May Be Due to Reversible Constriction of Cerebral Blood Vessels: Potential Roles of Unrecognized Ionized Hypomagnesemia, and Release of Ceramides and Platelet-Activating Factor

1Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center 450 Clarkson Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA 2Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center 450 Clarkson Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA 3Center for Cardiovascular and Muscle Research, SUNY Downstate Medical Center 450 Clarkson Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA 4The School of Graduate Studies in Molecular and Cellular Science, The State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA; 5Bio-Defense Systems, Inc, Rockville Centre, NY, USA

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