Recent advances with a novel model organism: Alcohol tolerance and sensitization in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue , 2014, Pages 87-93

  Tran, Steven ^a   Gerlai, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alcohol addiction; Alcohol sensitisation; Alcohol tolerance; Behavioral phenotyping; Ethanol; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOLERANCE; ALCOHOL SENSITIZATION; ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED PLACE PREFERENCE TEST; FISH MODEL; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SENSITIZATION; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG TOLERANCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG TOLERANCE; ETHANOL; HUMANS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84908309186     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: 18784216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2014.02.008     Document Type: Article

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