Alcohol-preferring rats show decreased corticotropin-releasing hormone-2 receptor expression and differences in hpa activation compared to alcohol-nonpreferring rats

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1275-1283

  Yong, Weidong ^a,b   Spence, John Paul ^b   Eskay, Robert ^c   Fitz, Stephanie D ^b   Damadzic, Ruslan ^c   Lai, Dongbing ^b   Foroud, Tatiana ^b   Carr, Lucinda G ^b   Shekhar, Anantha ^b   Chester, Julia A ^d   Heilig, Markus ^c   Liang, Tiebing ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Amygdala; Corticotropin releasing hormone type 2 receptor; Selective breeding; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INBRED RAT STRAIN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CORTICOSTERONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84899448383     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12379     Document Type: Article

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