Effects of a stressor and corticotrophin releasing factor on ethanol deprivation-induced ethanol intake and anxiety-like behavior in alcohol-preferring P rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 179-189

  Knapp, Darin J ^a,b   Overstreet, David H ^a   Huang, Mae ^a   Wills, Tiffany A ^a,b   Whitman, Buddy A ^a,b   Angel, Robert A ^a   Sinnett, Sarah E ^a   Breese, George R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol deprivation; Amygdala; Anxiety like behavior; Corticotrophin releasing factor; Ethanol; Nucleus accumbens; Paraventricular nucleus; Raphe; Stress; Stressor; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

4 (2 CHLORO 4 METHOXY 5 METHYLPHENYL) N [2 CYCLOPROPYL 1 (3 FLUORO 4 METHYLPHENYL)ETHYL] 5 METHYL N (2 PROPYNYL) 2 THIAZOLAMINE; ALCOHOL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG PREFERENCE; FACILITATION; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SENSITIZATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; HYDROCARBONS, HALOGENATED; MALE; RATS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THIAZINES;

EID: 82955213505     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2366-5     Document Type: Article

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