DRD2 gene transfer into the nucleus accumbens core of the alcohol preferring and nonpreferring rats attenuates alcohol drinking

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 720-728

  Thanos, Panayotis K ^a,e   Taintor, Nicholas B ^a   Rivera, Seth N ^a   Umegaki, Hiroyuki ^b   Ikari, Hiroyuki ^b   Roth, George ^c   Ingram, Donald K ^c   Hitzemann, Robert ^d   Fowler, Joanna S ^a   Gatley, S John ^a   Wang, Gene Jack ^a   Volkow, Nora D ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism Adenovirus Addiction Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Gene Therapy

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ALCOHOL; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; RACLOPRIDE;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR GENE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; ETHANOL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALIA;

EID: 2442665495     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000125270.30501.08     Document Type: Article

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