Adolescent binge drinking leads to changes in alcohol drinking, anxiety, and amygdalar corticotropin releasing factor cells in adulthood in male rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gilpin, Nicholas W ^a   Karanikas, Chrisanthi A ^b   Richardson, Heather N ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DRINKING; ADULTHOOD; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BINGE ALCOHOL DRINKING; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; IMPULSIVENESS; LATERAL PORTION OF THE CENTRAL AMYGDALA; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; AGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CELL COUNT; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84856728533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031466     Document Type: Article

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