Non-human primate models of inheritance vulnerability to alcohol use disorders

Addiction Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 374-385

  Barr, Christina S ^a,b,c   Goldman, David ^b  

^a NIHNIAAA   (United States)

^b Laboratory of Neurogenetics   (United States)

^c Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Genetics; HTTLPR; MAO A; OPRMI; Primate

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; SEROTONIN;

ABSTINENCE; ADAPTATION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INHERITANCE; MACACA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRESS; TEMPERAMENT; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AGE; ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS;

AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ETHANOL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MACACA MULATTA; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; SEROTONIN; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 34247868829     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2005.00034.x     Document Type: Review

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