Effect of nociceptin on alcohol intake in alcohol-preferring rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 220-224

  Ciccocioppo, Roberto ^a   Panocka, Izabela ^b   Polidori, Carlo ^a   Regoli, Domenico ^c   Massi, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND ANIMAL BREEDING   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alcohol intake; Marchigian Sardinian alcohol preferring rat; Nociceptin; Orphanin FQ

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; NOCICEPTIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; FOOD INTAKE; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; OPIOID PEPTIDES; RATS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID;

EID: 0000726813     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130050828     Document Type: Article

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