Viral-mediated knockdown of mGluR7 in the nucleus accumbens mediates excessive alcohol drinking and increased ethanol-elicited conditioned place preference in rats

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2109-2119

  Bahi, Amine ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Conditioned place preference; Ethanol; Lentivirus; MGluR7; ShRNA; Two bottle choice

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 7; QUININE; SACCHARIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORPUS STRIATUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; REWARD;

EID: 84884287741     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.122     Document Type: Article

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