maltose/seizures

One of the prominent symptoms in alcoholics during withdrawal is an intense feeling of anxiety. Recently new tests have become available which may index anxiety in rodents. We have evaluated two such tests in our model of withdrawal from ethanol (ET) in rats. Rats were given either ET in milk (7-13

The cerebral metabolic rate of glucose utilization (CMRGlc) was measured in rats fed liquid diets containing ethanol for 8 wk, after removal of ethanol from the diet and after acute ethanol intoxication. Control rats were pair fed the liquid diets containing isoenergetic amounts of dextrin-maltose.

Mamba venoms contain pharmacologically active proteins that interfere with neuromuscular transmission by binding to and altering the normal functioning of neuronal proteins involved, directly or indirectly, with regulating nerve transmission. Of the mamba toxins studied to date, many act on

BACKGROUND Chronic ethanol consumption is known to induce adaptive changes in the hippocampal glutamatergic transmission and alter NMDA receptor binding and subunit expression. Metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptors have been shown to function as modulators of neuronal excitability and can fine