Neurotrophin ligand-receptor systems in somatosensory cortex of adult rat are affected by repeated episodes of ethanol

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 680-692

  Bruns, Marla B ^a,b   Miller, Michael W ^a,b,c  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Anterograde; Autocrine; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Dementia; Nerve growth factor; p75; trk

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; LIGAND; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN P75; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MEMORY; MICRODENSITOMETRY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ETHANOL; MALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33947678816     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2006.12.022     Document Type: Article

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