The effects of chronic ethanol consumption and ethanol withdrawal on serum cholinesterase activity in rats

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 316-320

  Bilgi, Cumhur ^a   Tokgöz, Serhat ^a   Aydin, Ahmet ^a   Çelik, Turgay ^a   Tayfun Uzbay, I ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHOLINESTERASE;

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDIOGENIC SEIZURE; CHOLINESTERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; CHOLINESTERASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ETHANOL; FEMALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0038690445     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agg089     Document Type: Article

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