Effects of vigabatrin, an irreversible GABA transaminase inhibitor, on ethanol reinforcement and ethanol discriminative stimuli in mice

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 178-190

  Griffin, William C ^a   Nguyen, Shaun A ^b   Deleon, Christopher P ^c   Middaugh, Lawrence D ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol; ethanol drinking; interoceptive cue; mouse; reward

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRATE AMINOTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; ALCOHOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VIGABATRIN; WATER;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

4-AMINOBUTYRATE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ETHANOL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF ADMINISTRATION; VIGABATRIN;

EID: 84858702828     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e3283512c56     Document Type: Article

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