Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors containing the α4 subunit modulate alcohol reward

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 738-746

  Liu, Liwang ^a   Hendrickson, Linzy M ^a   Guildford, Melissa J ^a   Zhao Shea, Rubing ^a   Gardner, Paul D ^a   Tapper, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; alcoholism; dopamine; mice; nicotinic receptor; reward

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; PROTEIN C FOS;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; ETHANOL; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84875735010     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.09.019     Document Type: Article

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