Role of the GABAA system in behavioral, motoric, and cerebellar protection by estrogen during ethanol withdrawal

Alcohol

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 49-61

  Rewal, Mridula ^a   Jung, Marianna E ^a   Wen, Yi ^a   Brun Zinkernagel, Anne Marie ^a   Simpkins, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

17 Estradiol; Ethanol withdrawal; GABAA system

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BICUCULLINE; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; DEXTRIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; MUSCIMOL; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ASSAY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPLANTATION; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LIQUID; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; MUSCIMOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0242690901     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2003.07.005     Document Type: Article

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