In vivo evidence for alcohol-induced neurochemical changes in rat brain without protracted withdrawal, pronounced thiamine deficiency, or severe liver damage

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1427-1442

  Zahr, Natalie M ^a,b   Mayer, Dirk ^b,c   Vinco, Shara ^b   Orduna, Juan ^b   Luong, Richard ^a   Sullivan, Edith V ^a   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Liver; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Rat; Thiamine; Vaporized alcohol

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHOLINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; THIAMINE; THIAMINE PHOSPHATE;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATTY LIVER; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER INJURY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; TURNOVER TIME; WILD TYPE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; CHOLINE; ETHANOL; FATTY LIVER; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; THIAMINE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; THIAMINE MONOPHOSPHATE;

EID: 64949163211     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2008.119     Document Type: Article

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