Behavioral effects of ethanol in cerebellum are age dependent: Potential system and molecular mechanisms

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2070-2080

  Van Skike, Candice E ^a   Botta, Paolo ^b   Chin, Vivien S ^a   Tokunaga, Sayaka ^c   McDaniel, Janelle M ^c   Venard, Jacob ^a   Diaz Granados, Jaime L ^a   Valenzuela, C Fernando ^b   Matthews, Douglas B ^d  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Memphis   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Ataxia; Cerebellum; Ethanol; PKC Gamma; Purkinje

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PROTEIN KINASE C GAMMA;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROUPS BY AGE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROVOCATION TEST; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ETHANOL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; PROTEIN KINASE C; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 78649567064     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2010.01303.x     Document Type: Article

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