Etomidate and propofol-hyposensitive GABAA receptor β3(N265M) mice show little changes in acute alcohol sensitivity but enhanced tolerance and withdrawal

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 416, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 275-278

  Sanchis Segura, Carles ^a   Cline, Brandon ^a   Jurd, Rachel ^b   Rudolph, Uwe ^b   Spanagel, Rainer ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3(N265M) mutant mice; Ethanol; GABAA 3 subunit; Loss of righting reflex (LORR); Tolerance; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL; ETOMIDATE; PROPOFOL; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; GENOTYPE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHTING REFLEX; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ALCOHOL-INDUCED DISORDERS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASPARAGINE; DRUG TOLERANCE; ETHANOL; ETOMIDATE; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; METHIONINE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROPOFOL; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; REFLEX;

EID: 33947597699     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.02.024     Document Type: Article

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