Chronic ethanol consumption in rats produces residual increases in anxiety 4 months after withdrawal

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-31

  Santucci, Anthony C ^a   Cortes, Christian ^a   Bettica, Annemarie ^a   Cortes, Francisco ^a  

^a MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cortex; Ethanol; Hippocampus; Morris maze; Passive avoidance; Swim stress; Thigmotaxis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR FONTANEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WORKING MEMORY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ETHANOL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38749122524     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.10.009     Document Type: Article

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