Evaluation of the glutamate decarboxylase genes Gad1 and Gad2 as candidate genes for acute ethanol withdrawal severity in mice

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 467-472

  Fehr, Christoph ^a,b   Rademacher, Brooks L S ^a   Buck, Kari J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavior genetics; Candidate gene; Ethanol; GABA; QTL; Western blotting; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRAIT; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0037402997     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-5846(03)00034-4     Document Type: Article

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