Interaction between serotonin transporter gene variation and rearing condition in alcohol preference and consumption in female primates

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1146-1152

  Barr, Christina S ^a,e   Newman, Timothy K ^a   Lindell, Stephen ^a   Shannon, Courtney ^b   Champoux, Maribeth ^b   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^c   Suomi, Stephen J ^b   Goldman, David ^d   Higley, J Dee ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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

^e NIH Animal Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTAME DERIVATIVE; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HORMONE ACTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; PROMOTER REGION; RELAPSE; STRESS;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MACACA; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 7744240079     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.61.11.1146     Document Type: Article

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