Ethanol-Induced Loss-of-Righting Response During Ethanol Withdrawal in Male and Female Rats: Associations with Alterations in Arc Labeling

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 234-241

  Walls, Shawn A ^a,b   Macklin, Zachary L ^b   Devaud, Leslie L ^a,c  

^a Departments of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences Psychology   (United States)

^b University of ME   (United States)

^c HUSSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethanol Withdrawal; Loss of Righting Reflex; Sex Differences

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; RIGHTING REFLEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP TIME;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POSTURAL BALANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84856393075     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2011.01613.x     Document Type: Article

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