Differential central NOS-NO signaling underlies clonidine exacerbation of ethanol-evoked behavioral impairment

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 555-566

  Bender, Tara S ^a   Abdel Rahman, Abdel A ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonidine; Endothelial NOS; Ethanol; Locus Coeruleus; Neuronal NOS

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ARGININE DERIVATIVE; CLONIDINE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG ALCOHOL INTERACTION; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RAT; RIGHTING REFLEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE LEVEL; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CLONIDINE; DRUG SYNERGISM; ETHANOL; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 77749301642     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.01121.x     Document Type: Article

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