A Potential Contribution to Ethanol Withdrawal Kindling: Reduced GABA Function in the Inferior Collicular Cortex

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1290-1294

  McCown, Thomas J ^a,b   Breese, George R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Brain and Development Research Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ethanol Withdrawal; GABA; Inferior Collicular Cortex; Kindling; NMDA

Indexed keywords

BICUCULLINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE THRESHOLD;

ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL DELIRIUM; ANIMAL; BICUCULLINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; KINDLING (NEUROLOGY); MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURAL INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0027855528     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1993.tb05243.x     Document Type: Article

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