Neuropeptide Y levels in ethanol-naive alcohol-preferring and nonpreferring rats and in Wistar rats after ethanol exposure

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1778-1782

  Ehlers, Cindy L ^a   Li, Ting Kai ^b   Lumeng, Lawrence ^b   Hwang, Bang H ^b   Somes, Christine ^a   Jimenez, Patricia ^c   Mathé, Aleksander A ^c  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alcohol Preferring Rats; Alcoholism; Amygdala; Hypothalamus; Neuropeptide Y (NPY)

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; FRONTAL CORTEX; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; TASTE PREFERENCE;

EID: 0031760196     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1998.tb03979.x     Document Type: Article

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