Interaction of thiamine deficiency and voluntary alcohol consumption disrupts rat corpus callosum ultrastructure

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2207-2216

  He, Xiaohua ^a,b   Sullivan, Edith V ^c   Stankovic, Roger K ^a   Harper, Clive G ^a   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Alcohol preferring (P) rat; Brain white matter; Electron microscopy; MRI; Thiamine deficiency

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MYELIN; PYRITHIAMINE; THIAMINE; WATER;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MALE; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WHITE MATTER; WISTAR RAT;

ALCOHOL-INDUCED DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES; ATROPHY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ETHANOL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PYRITHIAMINE; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 34548644828     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301332     Document Type: Article

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