Article
gamma-Aminobutyric acid A receptor subunit mutant mice: new perspectives on alcohol actions.
Biochemical pharmacology - 15 Oct 2004
Boehm Stephen L, Ponomarev Igor, Jennings Andrew W, Whiting Paul J, Rosahl Thomas W, Garrett Elisabeth M, Blednov Yuri A, Harris R Adron
Abstract excerpt
gamma-Aminobutyric acid A (GABA(A)) receptors are believed to mediate a number of alcohol's behavioral actions. Because the subunit composition of GABA(A) receptors determines receptor pharmacology, behavioral sensitivity to alcohol (ethanol) may depend on which subunits are present (or absent). A number of knock-out and/or transgenic mouse models have been developed (alpha1, alpha2, alpha5, alpha6, beta2, beta3,...
Topics
- Animals
- Ethanol
- Humans
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Motor Activity
- Mutation
- Protein Subunits
- Quantitative Trait Loci
- Receptors, GABA-A
- Reflex
- gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
