Translational magnetic resonance spectroscopy reveals excessive central glutamate levels during alcohol withdrawal in humans and rats

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1015-1021

  Hermann, Derik ^a   Weber Fahr, Wolfgang ^a   Sartorius, Alexander ^a   Hoerst, Mareen ^a   Frischknecht, Ulrich ^a   Tunc Skarka, Nuran ^a   Perreau Lenz, Stephanie ^a   Hansson, Anita C ^a   Krumm, Bertram ^a   Kiefer, Falk ^a   Spanagel, Rainer ^a   Mann, Karl ^a   Ende, Gabriele ^a   Sommer, Wolfgang H ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; chronic intermittent alcohol vapor exposure; glutamate glutamine cycle; human; neuroimaging; rat model

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 84861096333     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.07.034     Document Type: Article

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