Molecular mechanisms underlying alcohol-drinking behaviours

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 576-591

  Ron, Dorit ^a   Barak, Segev ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; AMYGDALA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA METHYLATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHANOL; HUMANS; NERVE NET; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84979270635     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn.2016.85     Document Type: Review

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