The alcohol-induced locomotor stimulation and accumbal dopamine release is suppressed in ghrelin knockout mice

Alcohol

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 341-347

  Jerlhag, Elisabet ^a   Landgren, Sara ^a   Egecioglu, Emil ^a   Dickson, Suzanne L ^a   Engel, Jörgen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Appetite; Dopamine; Ethanol; Ghrelin; Hedonic; Reward

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DOPAMINE; GHRELIN; WATER;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE INHIBITION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; ETHANOL; GHRELIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RECEPTORS, GHRELIN;

MUS;

EID: 79952980024     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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