The amygdala regulates the antianxiety sensitization effect of flumazenil during repeated chronic ethanol or repeated stress

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1872-1882

  Knapp, Darin J ^a   Overstreet, David H ^a   Angel, Robert A ^a   Navarro, Montserrat ^a   Breese, George R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumbens; Amygdala; Anxiety; Dorsal Raphe; Flumazenil; Inferior Colliculus; Paraventricular Nucleus of the Hypothalamus; Repeated Ethanol Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 ETHYL 6,7 DIMETHOXY BETA CARBOLINE 3 CARBOXYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; ALCOHOL; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FLUMAZENIL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CANNULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; DOSE RESPONSE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMPLANTATION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLUMAZENIL; GABA MODULATORS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; STRESS; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 35349003317     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2007.00514.x     Document Type: Article

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