Lower packing density of glial fibrillary acidic protein-immunoreactive astrocytes in the prelimbic cortex of alcohol-naive and alcohol-drinking alcohol-preferring rats as compared with alcohol-nonpreferring and Wistar rats

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 766-772

  Miguel Hidalgo, Jose Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Dependence; Glia; Immunohistochemical Analysis; Prefrontal

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CELL MARKER; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DENSITY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FRONTAL CORTEX; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 18844385162     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000164378.92680.FA     Document Type: Article

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