Extrasynaptic δ-containing GABAA receptors in the nucleus accumbens dorsomedial shell contribute to alcohol intake

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4459-4464

  Nie, Hong ^a   Rewal, Mridula ^a   Gill, T Michael ^a   Ron, Dorit ^a,b,c   Janak, Patricia H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Reward; Self administration; Tonic inhibition

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL; SUCROSE;

ADENOVIRUS; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REDUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SUGAR INTAKE; SYNAPSE;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SUCROSE; SYNAPSES;

RATTUS;

EID: 79952733633     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1016156108     Document Type: Article

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