Innate differences in the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the regions within the extended amygdala between alcohol preferring and nonpreferring rats

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 909-920

  Prakash, Anand ^a,b   Zhang, Huaibo ^a,b   Pandey, Subhash C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol Preference; Amygdala; BDNF; BNST; Nucleus Accumbens

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ALCOHOLISM; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOOD PREFERENCES; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 44349174286     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2008.00650.x     Document Type: Article

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