Study on the role of glycine, strychnine-insensitive receptors (glycine(B) sites)in the discriminative stimulus effects of ethanol in the rat

Alcohol

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-91

  Bienkowski, Przemyslaw ^a,b   Danysz, Wojciech ^c   Kostowski, Wojciech ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c MERZ PHARMACEUTICALS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drug discrimination; Ethanol; Glycine(B) site; NMDA receptor complex; Rat

Indexed keywords

7 CHLORO 4 HYDROXY 3 (3 PHENOXYPHENYL) 2 QUINOLONE; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; MEMANTINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; STRYCHNINE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DISCRIMINATION; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALIA; STRYCHNOS TOXIFERA;

EID: 0030627398     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0741-8329(97)00103-1     Document Type: Article

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