Prolonged alcohol intake leads to irreversible loss of vasopressin and oxytocin neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus

Brain Research

Volumn 925, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 76-88

  Silva, Susana M ^a   Madeira, M Dulce ^a   Ruela, Carlos ^a   Paula Barbosa, Manuel M ^a  

^a Porto Medical School   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Degeneration; Oxytocin; Paraventricular nucleus; Vasopression; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ETHANOL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; OXYTOCIN; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 0037126960     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(01)03261-9     Document Type: Article

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