The thorny side of addiction: Adaptive plasticity and dendritic spines

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Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 9-21

  Mulholland, Patrick J ^a   Chandler, L Judson ^a  

^a MUSC Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Addiction; Alcohol; Dendritic spines; NMDA receptors; Plasticity; Postsynaptic density; PSD 95

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BINDING SITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DENDRITIC SPINES; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 37249055659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2007.18     Document Type: Short Survey

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