Effects of chronic alcohol consumption on the expression of different NR1 splice variants in the brain of AA and ANA lines of rats

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 166-175

  Winkler, Anett ^a   Mahal, Beatrice ^a   Kiianmaa, Kalervo ^b   Zieglgänsberger, Walter ^a   Spanagel, Rainer ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Competitive RT PCR; Hippocampus; NMDA receptor splice variant; Nucleus accumbens; Western blot analysis

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032847877     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(99)00218-1     Document Type: Article

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