Different alcohol exposures induce selective alterations on the expression of dynorphin and nociceptin systems related genes in rat brain

Addiction Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 425-433

  D'Addario, Claudio ^a,b   Caputi, Francesca F ^a   Rimondini, Roberto ^a   Gandolfi, Ottavio ^a   Del Borrello, Elia ^a   Candeletti, Sanzio ^a   Romualdi, Patrizia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

alcohol; amygdala; dynorphin; gene expression; nociceptin; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; ALCOHOLISM; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DYNORPHIN GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NOCICEPTIN GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; UPREGULATION;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DYNORPHINS; ENKEPHALINS; ETHANOL; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX, RIGHTING; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 84876100493     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2011.00326.x     Document Type: Article

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