Effects of finasteride on chronic and acute ethanol withdrawal severity in the WSP and WSR selected lines

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 939-948

  Gorin, Rebecca E ^a   Crabbe, John C ^a   Tanchuck, Michelle A ^a   Long, Season L ^a   Finn, Deborah A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Allopregnanolone; Anxiety; Convulsions; Selected lines

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL; FINASTERIDE; PROGESTERONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY;

ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL SEIZURES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLESTENONE 5 ALPHA-REDUCTASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ETHANOL; FINASTERIDE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, GABA; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 21644468130     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000167742.11566.01     Document Type: Article

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