Ethanol Administration Produces Divergent Changes in GABAergic Neuroactive Steroid Immunohistochemistry in the Rat Brain

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 90-99

  Cook, Jason B ^a   Dumitru, Ana Maria G ^a   O'Buckley, Todd K ^a   Morrow, A Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 ,5 THP; Alcohol; Allopregnanolone; Neuroactive Steroid; Neurosteroid

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; ALCOHOL; DIAMINOBENZIDINE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENTATE GYRUS; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATERAL AMYGDALA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STRESS; STRIA TERMINALIS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

3Α,5Α-THP; ALCOHOL; ALLOPREGNANOLONE; NEUROACTIVE STEROID; NEUROSTEROID;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ETHANOL; GABA MODULATORS; MALE; PREGNANOLONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84892816336     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12223     Document Type: Article

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