Decreased Sensitivity of NMDA Receptors on Dopaminergic Neurons from the Posterior Ventral Tegmental Area Following Chronic Nondependent Alcohol Consumption

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1710-1719

  Fitzgerald, Griffin J ^a,b   Liu, Hai ^a   Morzorati, Sandra L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol preferring (P) rats; NMDA receptors; Nondependent alcohol consumption; Nonlinear mixed effects model; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; DOWN-REGULATION; ETHANOL; FEMALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

RATTUS;

EID: 84866987990     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2012.01762.x     Document Type: Article

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