Chronic Intermittent Ethanol Exposure Enhances the Excitability and Synaptic Plasticity of Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortex Neurons and Induces a Tolerance to the Acute Inhibitory Actions of Ethanol

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1112-1127

  Nimitvilai, Sudarat ^a   Lopez, Marcelo F ^a   Mulholland, Patrick J ^a   Woodward, John J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; AMPA RECEPTOR; GLYCINE TRANSPORTER 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; SMALL CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; LATERAL ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; ETHANOL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SMALL-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84957436129     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.250     Document Type: Article

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