Neuropeptide y Signaling in the central nucleus of amygdala regulates alcohol-drinking and anxiety-like behaviors of alcohol-preferring rats

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 451-461

  Zhang, Huaibo ^a,b   Sakharkar, Amul J ^a,b   Shi, Guangbin ^a,b   Ugale, Rajesh ^a,b   Prakash, Anand ^a,b   Pandey, Subhash C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol Preference; Amygdala; Anxiety; CREB; Neuropeptide Y; P Rat

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 4; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE CATALYTIC SUBUNITS; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77749283313     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.01109.x     Document Type: Article

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