Tryptophan metabolism in male Sardinian alcohol-preferring (sP) and -non-preferring (sNP) rats

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 220-225

  Bano, Samina ^b,d   Morgan, Christopher J ^a   Badawy, Abdulla A B ^a   Colombo, Giancarlo ^c   Buckland, Paul R ^b   McGuffin, Peter ^b   Fadda, Fabio ^c   Gessa, Gian Luigi ^c  

^a WHITCHURCH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN 2,3 DIOXYGENASE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; TRYPTOPHAN BRAIN LEVEL; TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM;

EID: 0031745727     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.alcalc.a008385     Document Type: Article

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