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Spontaneous and ethanol-stimulated in vitro release of beta-endorphin by the hypothalamus of AA and ANA rats.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Dec 1994
de Waele J P, Kiianmaa K, Gianoulakis C
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies demonstrated that both the spontaneous and ethanol-stimulated release of beta-endorphin (beta-EP) like-peptides (beta-EPLPs) by the hypothalami of the ethanol-preferring C57BL/6 mice is more pronounced than by the hypothalami of the ethanol-avoiding DBA/2 mice. The objective of t...
Topics
- Alcohol Drinking
- Alcoholism
- Animals
- Culture Techniques
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Female
- Hypothalamus
- Male
- Motivation
- Peptide Fragments
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred Strains
- Receptors, Opioid
- Selection, Genetic
- beta-Endorphin