Voluntary Alcohol Drinking Enhances Proopiomelanocortin Gene Expression in Nucleus Accumbens Shell and Hypothalamus of Sardinian Alcohol-Preferring Rats

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Yan ^a   Colombo, Giancarlo ^b   Niikura, Keiichi ^a   Carai, Mauro A M ^b   Femenía, Teresa ^c   García Gutiérrez, Maria S ^c   Manzanares, Jorge ^c   Ho, Ann ^a   Gessa, Gian Luigi ^b   Kreek, Mary Jeanne ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alcohol drinking; Hypothalamus; Nucleus accumbens shell; POMC; Sardinian alcohol preferring and nonpreferring rats

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANOSINE 5' O (3 THIOTRIPHOSPHATE); MESSENGER RNA; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLUTION HYBRIDIZATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; ETHANOL; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; UP-REGULATION;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84872501589     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2012.01867.x     Document Type: Article

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