Chronic alcohol drinking alters neuronal dendritic spines in the brain reward center nucleus accumbens

Brain Research

Volumn 1134, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 148-161

  Zhou, Feng C ^a   Anthony, Bruce ^a   Dunn, Kenneth W ^a   Lindquist, W Brent ^b   Xu, Zao C ^a   Deng, Ping ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Extended amygdala; GABA; Genetics; Glutamate; Medium spiny neuron; NMDA; P rat; Postsynaptic; Repeated deprivation; Two photon laser microscopy

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN REGION; CELL DENSITY; CELL POPULATION; DENDRITIC SPINE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXON; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAT; SYNAPSE; TERATOLOGY; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALCOHOL-INDUCED DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DENDRITIC SPINES; ETHANOL; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; REWARD; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 33846345905     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.11.046     Document Type: Article

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