Exacerbation of ethanol withdrawal seizures in mice with history of multiple withdrawal experience

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 179-183

  Becker, Howard C ^a,b   Diaz Granados, Jaime L ^c   Hale, Robert L ^c  

^a RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Ethanol; Kindling; Mice; Seizures; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; KINDLING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SENSITIZATION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; SEIZURES; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030910329     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(96)00303-6     Document Type: Article

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