Effects of acute ethanol exposure on anxiety measures and epigenetic modifiers in the extended amygdala of adolescent rats

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2057-2067

  Sakharkar, Amul J ^a,b   Tang, Lei ^a,b   Zhang, Huaibo ^a,b   Chen, Ying ^a   Grayson, Dennis R ^a   Pandey, Subhash C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Jesse Brown VA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Amygdala; Anxiolysis; Bed nucleus of stria terminalis; DNA methyltransferases; Histone deacetylases; Rapid ethanol tolerance

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; MESSENGER RNA; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE 1;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BINGE DRINKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT-DARK TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG THERAPY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ETHANOL; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; MALE; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

EID: 84938070962     PISSN: 14611457     EISSN: 14695111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1461145714001047     Document Type: Article

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