Effects of chronic ethanol on brain and serum level of methionine enkephalin

Peptides

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1935-1940

  Banks, William A ^a   Wolf, Kathleen M ^a   Niehoff, Michael L ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Alcoholism; Blood brain barrier; CNS; Peptide

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; METENKEPHALIN;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELUTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0842309111     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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