Alcohol: Mechanisms along the mesolimbic dopamine system

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 211, Issue , 2014, Pages 201-233

  Engel, Jörgen A ^a   Jerlhag, Elisabet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Ghrelin; GLP 1; Ligand gated ion channels; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; Nucleus accumbens; OSU6162; Reward; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

3 [3 (METHYLSULFONYL)PHENYL] 1 PROPYLPIPERIDINE; ACETYLCHOLINE; ALCOHOL; BRAIN PEPTIDE; DOPAMINE; GHRELIN; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; LIGAND GATED ION CHANNEL; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BRAIN REGION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFECT; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL PERFUSION; REWARD; RODENT; SELF STIMULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; ETHANOL; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84904632423     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63425-2.00009-X     Document Type: Chapter

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