Functional CRH variation increases stress-induced alcohol consumption in primates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 34, 2009, Pages 14593-14598

  Barr, Christina S ^a,e   Dvoskin, Rachel L ^a   Gupte, Manisha ^a   Sommer, Wolfgang ^a   Sun, Hui ^a   Schwandt, Melanie L ^a   Lindell, Stephen G ^a   Kasckow, John W ^b   Suomi, Stephen J ^d   Goldman, David ^a   Higley, J Dee ^c   Heilig, Markus ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^e NIH Animal Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing factor; CRH promoter

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; FORSKOLIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN VITRO STUDY; MACACA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RHESUS MONKEY; RISK; RODENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRESS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FORSKOLIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HAPLOTYPES; HYDROCORTISONE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSFECTION;

MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 70149091057     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902863106     Document Type: Article

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