Reduced DAT- and DBH-immunostaining in the limbic system of Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats

Brain Research

Volumn 948, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 192-202

  Casu, Maria Antonietta ^a   Dinucci, Dinuccio ^b   Colombo, Giancarlo ^c   Gessa, Gian Luigi ^a,d   Pani, Luca ^a,c  

^a Neuroscienze PharmaNess Scarl   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Animal model; Drug of abuse; Immunohistochemistry; Monoamine

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIBODY; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL STRUCTURE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCUS CERULEUS; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GYRUS CINGULI; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCUS COERULEUS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NOREPINEPHRINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0037032108     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)03220-1     Document Type: Article

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