Genes associated with alcohol abuse and tobacco smoking in the human nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1291-1302

  Flatscher Bader, Traute ^a   Harrison, Erin ^a   Matsumoto, Izuru ^b   Wilce, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Gene Expression; Human Nucleus Accumbens; Human Ventral Tegmental Area; Nicotine

Indexed keywords

ALPHA5 INTEGRIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; FIBRONECTIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; OSTEONECTIN; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHOB GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DNA MICROARRAY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LIPID METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOKING; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ALCOHOLISM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMOKING; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 77954039420     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2010.01207.x     Document Type: Article

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