Alcohol intake and brain [3H]muscimol binding sites in alcohol-preferring and non-preferring rats

Polish Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-123

  Dyr, Wanda ^a   Siemia̧tkowski, Marek ^a   Płaznik, Adam ^a,b   Bidziński, Andrzej ^a   Kostowski, Wojciech ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

3H muscimol; Alcohol; Alcohol preferring rats; Autoradiography; GABA A receptors

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BRAIN RECEPTOR; MUSCIMOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING SITE; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; ETHANOL; GABA AGONISTS; MUSCIMOL; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032921094     PISSN: 12306002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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