Locomotor sensitization to ethanol impairs NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity in the nucleus accumbens and increases ethanol self-administration

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4834-4842

  Abrahao, Karina Possa ^a,b   Ariwodola, Olusegun J ^a   Butler, Tracy R ^a   Rau, Andrew R ^a   Skelly, Mary Jane ^a   Carter, Eugenia ^a   Alexander, Nancy P ^a   McCool, Brian A ^a   Souza Formigoni, Maria Lucia O ^c   Weiner, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADDICTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; BIOPHYSICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ETHANOL; GABA-A RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84874839258     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5839-11.2013     Document Type: Article

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