Brain region-specific gene expression changes after chronic intermittent ethanol exposure and early withdrawal in C57BL/6J mice

Addiction Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 351-364

  Melendez, Roberto I ^a   McGinty, Jacqueline F ^a   Kalivas, Peter W ^a,b   Becker, Howard C ^a,b,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; alcohol withdrawal; brain regional adaptations; chronic intermittent alcohol exposure; gene expression profiling; microarray analysis.

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; RAS PROTEIN; RNA; UBIQUITIN;

ADAPTATION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAIN; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ONTOGENY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UBIQUITINATION;

ACTINS; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DOWN-REGULATION; ETHANOL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, RAS; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; UBIQUITIN; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84857642457     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2011.00357.x     Document Type: Article

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