Measurement of serum, liver, and brain cytokine induction, thiamine levels, and hepatopathology in rats exposed to a 4-day alcohol binge protocol

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1858-1870

  Zahr, Natalie M ^a,b   Luong, Richard ^c   Sullivan, Edith V ^a   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver; Neuroinflammation; Thiamine; TNF ; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; COCARBOXYLASE; CXCL1 CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; LIVER ENZYME; THIAMINE; THIAMINE PHOSPHATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ENCEPHALITIS; EUTHANASIA; EXPOSURE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOASSAY; LIPIDOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ALCOHOLISM; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CYTOKINES; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; THIAMINE;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 78049300507     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2010.01274.x     Document Type: Article

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