Article
Evidence for the importance of the "genotype" theory in alcohol seeking behavior: a commentary.
Alcohol and drug research - 1 Jan 2000
Blum K, Wallace J E, Briggs A H, Trachtenberg M C
Abstract excerpt
Consensus of the literature points towards a neuropsychogenetic model of alcoholism. Evidence in both animals and humans tends to support the proposed "genotype" theory of alcohol-seeking behavior, whereby a predisposition to alcohol preference may be mediated in part by either innate (genetic) o...
Topics
- Alcohol Drinking
- Alcoholism
- Animals
- Brain
- Endopeptidases
- Enkephalins
- Genotype
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Neprilysin
- Opioid-Related Disorders
- Protease Inhibitors
- Receptors, Opioid
- Stress, Psychological