Intrahippocampal nicotine and neurosteroids effects on the anxiety-like behaviour in voluntary and chronic alcohol-drinking rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 117-127

  Martín García, Elena ^a   Pallarès, Marc ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE NEUROCIÈNCIES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allopregnanolone; Anxiety related behaviour; Hippocampus; Neurosteroids; Nicotine; Open field; Pregnenolone sulphate; Voluntary chronic alcohol consumption

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; ALCOHOL; GLUCOSE; NEUROSTEROID; NICOTINE; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

EID: 24344496982     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.06.007     Document Type: Article

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