Article
Effect of ethanol drinking on the gene expression of opioid receptors, enkephalinase, and angiotensin-converting enzyme in two inbred mice strains.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Sept 1998
Winkler A, Búzás B, Siems W E, Heder G, Cox B M
Abstract excerpt
There is convincing evidence that genetic factors contribute to the predisposition to alcoholism. In this respect, alcohol-preferring (like C57BL/6 mice) and alcohol-avoiding lines (like DBA/2 mice) of animals served as models in the search for neurobiological substrates of excessive ethanol cons...
Topics
- Alcohol Drinking
- Alcoholism
- Animals
- Brain
- Gene Expression
- Genotype
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Neprilysin
- Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A
- RNA, Messenger
- Receptors, Opioid