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Reduced ethanol consumption and preference in cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) knockout mice.
Addiction biology - 1 Mar 2014
Salinas Armando G, Nguyen Chinh T Q, Ahmadi-Tehrani Dara, Morrisett Richard A
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Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) is a neuropeptide implicated in addiction to drugs of abuse. Several studies have characterized the role of CART in addiction to psychostimulants, but few have examined the role of CART in alcohol use disorders including alcoholism. The current study utilized a CART knockout (KO) mouse model to investigate the role of CART in ethanol appetitive behaviors. A...
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