Ethanol tolerance and withdrawal responses in GABA(A) receptor alpha 6 subunit null allele mice and in inbred C57BL/6J and strain 129/SvJ mice

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 259-265

  Homanics, Gregg E ^a   Le, Nam Q ^a   Kist, Frank ^a   Mihalek, Robert ^a   Hart, Alison R ^a   Quinlan, Joseph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

GABA(A) receptors; Gene knockout; Tolerance; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALLELISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVULSION; GENE TARGETING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; MICA;

EID: 0031934339     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1998.tb03647.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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