Quantitative comparison of mu opioid receptor mRNA in selected CNS regions of alcohol naive rats selectively bred for high and low alcohol drinking

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-12

  Gong, Jianhua ^a   Li, Xuan Wen ^a   Lai, Zhennan ^a   Froehlich, Janice C ^a   Yu, Lei ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol drinking; Mu opioid receptor; Solution hybridization

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MESSENGER RNA; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RATS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030928419     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00289-9     Document Type: Article

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