Males and females are just different: Sexually dimorphic responses to chronic ethanol exposure in hippocampal slice cultures

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 550, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-5

  Wiren, Kristine M ^a,b  

^a PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PENTETRAZOLE;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOL METABOLISM; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; BODY COMPOSITION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SLICE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DETOXIFICATION; EXCITOTOXICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PANCREATITIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84881369735     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.06.030     Document Type: Note

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