The use of adolescent nonhuman primates to model human alcohol intake: Neurobiological, genetic, and psychological variables

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1021, Issue , 2004, Pages 221-233

  Barr, Christina S ^a,b   Schwandt, Melanie L ^a   Newman, Timothy K ^a   Higley, J Dee ^a  

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

^b NIH Animal Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Alcohol; GxE interaction; Polymorphism; Primate; Rearing; Serotonin; Stress

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); SEROTONIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ALLELE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; LEARNING; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMATE; PROMOTER REGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

MACACA; PRIMATES;

EID: 3042790613     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1308.027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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