High alcohol preferring (HAP) and low alcohol preferring (LAP) rats show altered proopiomelanocortin (POMC) messenger RNA expression in the arcuate nucleus

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 406-409

  Kinoshita, Hiroshi ^a   Harbuz, Michael S ^b   Nishiguchi, Minori ^a   Ouchi, Harumi ^a   Minami, Takako ^a   Utsumi, Takao ^a   Motomura, Hiroyuki ^c   Hishida, Shigeru ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Forensic Science Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE; DOPAMINE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ETHANOL; FOOD PREFERENCES; MALE; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 4544269147     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agh076     Document Type: Article

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