Activin Controls Ethanol Potentiation of Inhibitory Synaptic Transmission Through GABAA Receptors and Concomitant Behavioral Sedation

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2024-2033

  Zheng, Fang ^a   Puppel, Anne ^a   Huber, Sabine E ^b   Link, Andrea S ^a   Eulenburg, Volker ^a   Van Brederode, Johannes F ^a   Müller, Christian P ^b   Alzheimer, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 8 AZIDO 5,6 DIHYDRO 5 METHYL 6 OXO 4H IMIDAZO[1,5 A][1,4]BENZODIAZEPINE 3 CARBOXYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL; BICUCULLINE; MUSCIMOL; PICROTOXIN; PROTEIN KINASE C EPSILON; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL SLICE; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SEDATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRATUM RADIATUM; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS; ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; PROTEIN KINASE C-EPSILON; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; REWARD;

EID: 84955565937     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.372     Document Type: Article

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