The neurosteroid pregnenolone sulfate neutralized the learning impairment induced by intrahippocampal nicotine in alcohol-drinking rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1109-1119

  Martin Garcia E ^a   Pallares M ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE NEUROCIÈNCIES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allopregnanolone; Chronic voluntary alcohol intake; Extinction; Hippocampus; Operant conditioning

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; NEUROSTEROID; NICOTINE; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 25844502463     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.08.036     Document Type: Article

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