Altered anxiety-like behavior and long-term potentiation in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in adult mice exposed to chronic social isolation, unpredictable stress, and ethanol beginning in adolescence

Alcohol

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 585-593

  Conrad, Kelly L ^a   Winder, Danny G ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Alcohol; Anxiety; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Plasticity; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENCE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRIA TERMINALIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

MUS;

EID: 79961172787     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: 18736823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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