Naloxone and Baclofen Attenuate Ethanol's Locomotor-Activating Effects in Preweanling Sprague-Dawley Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 172-180

  Arias, Carlos ^a   Mlewski, Estela C ^b   Molina, Juan Carlos ^a,b   Spear, Norman E ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

baclofen; ethanol; infant rat; naloxone; stimulation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL; BACLOFEN; NALOXONE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; WATER;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WEANING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BACLOFEN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; GABA AGONISTS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 60549085372     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014049     Document Type: Article

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