Brief prenatal ethanol exposure alters behavioral sensitivity to the kappa opioid receptor agonist (U62,066E) and antagonist (Nor-BNI) and reduces kappa opioid receptor expression

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1630-1638

  Nizhnikov, Michael E ^a   Pautassi, Ricardo M ^b   Carter, Jenna M ^a   Landin, Justine D ^a   Varlinskaya, Elena I ^a   Bordner, Kelly A ^c   Werner, David F ^a   Spear, Norman E ^a  

^a Department of Psychology Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience   (United States)

^b Faculty of Psychology Instituto Ferreyra INIMEC CONICET UNC National University of Córdoba   (Italy)

^c SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Infant; Kappa; Opioid; Rats

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; NOR BNI; SPIRADOLINE MESILATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NALTREXONE; NORBINALTORPHIMINE; PYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVE; SPIRADOLINE;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; GESTATION PERIOD; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING; AGONISTS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN LEVEL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG THERAPY; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHANOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NALTREXONE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PYRROLIDINES; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, KAPPA;

EID: 84901932323     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12416     Document Type: Article

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