Ethanol-induced extracellular signal regulated kinase: Role of dopamine D 1 receptors

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 858-867

  Ibba, Federico ^a   Vinci, Stefania ^a   Spiga, Saturnino ^b   Peana, Alessandra T ^d   Assaretti, Anna R ^d   Spina, Liliana ^a,c   Longoni, Rosanna ^a,c   Acquas, Elio ^a,c,e,f  

^a Departments of Toxicology   (Italy)

^b Animal Biology and Ecology

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^e Centre of Excellence Neurobiology of Addiction   (Italy)

^f Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Extended amygdala; Nucleus accumbens; PERK

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ECOPIPAM; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYMOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ENZYME INDUCTION; ETHANOL; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1;

EID: 64549119608     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.00907.x     Document Type: Article

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