Serotonin transporter availability correlates with alcohol intake in non-human primates

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-234

  Heinz, A ^a,d   Jones, D W ^a   Gorey, J G ^a   Bennet, A ^b   Suomi, S J ^c   Weinberger, D R ^a   Higley, J D ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CIT SPECT; Aggressiveness; Alcohol response; Disposition to alcoholism; Molecular neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; RADIOLIGAND; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; COCAINE; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0037223525     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001214     Document Type: Article

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