BK Channels: mediators and models for alcohol tolerance

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 629-637

  Treistman, Steven N ^a   Martin, Gilles E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MEDICAL SCIENCES CAMPUS   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MICRORNA;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; ALCOHOLISM; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN REGION; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; EMOTIONALITY; EPIGENETICS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LIPID RAFT; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; DRUG TOLERANCE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ETHANOL; HUMANS; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICRORNAS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 70449727700     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2009.08.001     Document Type: Review

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