Prenatal ethanol increases ethanol intake throughout adolescence, alters ethanol-mediated aversive learning, and affects μ but not δ or κ opioid receptor mRNA expression

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1569-1579

  Fabio, María Carolina ^a,b   Macchione, Ana Fabiola ^a   Nizhnikov, Michael E ^c   Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos ^a,b  

^a Instituto de Investigación Médica M y M Ferreyra   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^c SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Aversive conditioning; Ethanol intake; Opioid receptors; Prenatal ethanol

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; SIGMA OPIATE RECEPTOR; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; DELTA OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVERSION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; MALE; MICRODISSECTION; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL ETHANOL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA ISOLATION; SUGAR INTAKE; AGE; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, DELTA; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, KAPPA; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84931955036     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12913     Document Type: Article

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