Alcohol intake of P rats is regulated by muscarinic receptors in the pedunculopontine nucleus and VTA

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 497-504

  Katner, S N ^a,b   McBride, W J ^b   Lumeng, L ^a   Li, T K ^a   Murphy, J M ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol drinking; Alcohol preferring rats; Carbachol; Microinjection; Pedunculopontine nucleus; Scopolamine; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PEDUNCULAR ANSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; CARBACHOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRINKING; EATING; FEMALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; PONS; RATS; SCOPOLAMINE; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030844019     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(97)00291-8     Document Type: Article

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