Task: Answer Verification
Input (English): Question: Are adolescent Intermittent Alcohol Exposure : Dysregulation of Thrombospondins and Synapse Formation Associated with Decreased Neuronal Density in the Adult Hippocampus?
Answer: Repeated EtOH exposure during adolescence results in long-term changes in specific astrocyte signaling proteins and their neuronal synaptogenic receptor. Continued signaling by these traditionally developmental factors in adulthood may represent a compensatory mechanism whereby astrocytes reopen the synaptogenic window and repair lost connectivity, and consequently contribute to the enduring maladaptive structural and functional abnormalities previously observed in the hippocampus after AIE.
Output (English): yes