Binge drinking: In search of its molecular target via the GABA A receptor

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Yang, Andrew R S T ^a   Liu, Juan ^a   Yi, Heon S ^a   Warnock, Kaitlin T ^a   Wang, Mingfei ^a   June Jr , Harry L ^a   Puche, Adam C ^a   Elnabawi, Ahmed ^a   Sieghart, Werner ^b   Aurelian, Laure ^a   June Sr , Harry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Alpha 1; Binge drinking; GABA A receptor; HAD rat; Sirna; Ventral pallidum; Viral vector

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SUCROSE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINGE DRINKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FLUID INTAKE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 84862226315     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00123     Document Type: Article

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