Increased perioculomotor urocortin 1 immunoreactivity in genetically selected alcohol preferring rats

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1956-1965

  Fonareva, Irina ^a   Spangler, Erika ^a   Cannella, Nazzareno ^b   Sabino, Valentina ^c   Cottone, Pietro ^c   Ciccocioppo, Roberto ^b   Zorrilla, Eric P ^c   Ryabinin, Andrey E ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol Preference; Alcoholism; Corticotropin Releasing Factor; Edinger Westphal; Sardinian Preferring Rats; Tyrosine Hydroxylase; Urocortin 1

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; FLUORESCENT DYE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UROCORTIN I;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR FONTANEL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; WISTAR RAT;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; UROCORTINS;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 70350495926     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.01033.x     Document Type: Article

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