Susceptibility to ethanol withdrawal seizures is produced by BK channel gene expression

Addiction Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 332-337

  Ghezzi, Alfredo ^a   Krishnan, Harish R ^a   Atkinson, Nigel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

addiction; alcohol dependence; drosophila; ion channels; KCNMA1

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; SLO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; WITHDRAWAL SEIZURE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS;

ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL SEIZURES; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ETHANOL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 84899441708     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2012.00465.x     Document Type: Article

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