Pharmacological blockade of corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 1 (CRH1R) reduces voluntary consumption of high alcohol concentrations in non-dependent Wistar rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 522-529

  Cippitelli, Andrea ^a   Damadzic, Ruslan ^a   Singley, Erick ^a   Thorsell, Annika ^a   Ciccocioppo, Roberto ^b   Eskay, Robert L ^a   Heilig, Markus ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Antalarmin; CRH1R; Intake; Intermittent; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ANTALARMIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ALCOHOL DETERRENTS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRINKING; ETHANOL; MALE; PYRIMIDINES; PYRROLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECURRENCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 81255164797     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: 18735177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2011.10.016     Document Type: Article

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