Delineation of the role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor genes in alcohol preference in mice

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 660-671

  Symons, Melissa N ^a   Weng, Julia ^a   Diehl, Eric ^a   Heo, Eileen ^a   Kleiber, Morgan L ^a   Singh, Shiva M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alcohol preference; F 2 co segregation; Mouse; Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA3; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA5; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA4; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALLELE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CHROMOSOME 9; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CROSSES, GENETIC; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

MUS;

EID: 77956190223     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-010-9366-9     Document Type: Article

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