Genetic variation within the Chrna7 gene modulates nicotine reward-like phenotypes in mice

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 213-225

  Harenza, J L ^a   Muldoon, P P ^a   De Biasi, M ^b   Damaj, M I ^a   Miles, M F ^a,c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

7 Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Behavioral genetics; BXD panel; Chrna7; Conditioned place preference; Genomics; Insulin; Nicotine; Quantitative trait loci; Reward

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLLYCACONITINE; NICOTINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHENOTYPE; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BEHAVIORAL GENETICS; BXD PANEL; CHRNA7; CONDITIONED PLACE PREFERENCE; GENOMICS; INSULIN; NICOTINE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REWARD; Α7 NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR;

ACONITINE; ALPHA7 NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR; ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC VARIATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NICOTINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUINUCLIDINES; REWARD; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84892972342     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12113     Document Type: Article

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