Progress in using mouse inbred strains, consomics, and mutants to identify genes related to stress, anxiety, and alcohol phenotypes

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1066-1078

  Goldowitz, Daniel ^a   Matthews, Douglas B ^b   Hamre, Kristin M ^a   Mittleman, Guy ^b   Chesler, Elissa J ^c   Becker, Howard C ^d   Lopez, Marcelo F ^d   Jones, Sara R ^e   Mathews, Tiffany A ^e   Miles, Michael F ^f   Kerns, Robnet ^f   Grant, Kathleen A ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Behavioral Genetics; Ethanol Phenotypes; Gene Networks; Mesolimbic Dopamine; Schedule Induced Polydipsia; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYDIPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; ENVIRONMENT; ETHANOL; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PHENOTYPE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; STRESS;

EID: 33744747662     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00125.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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