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SUBMITTER: Hansson AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5916348 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hansson Anita C AC Koopmann Anne A Uhrig Stefanie S Bühler Sina S Domi Esi E Kiessling Eva E Ciccocioppo Roberto R Froemke Robert C RC Grinevich Valery V Kiefer Falk F Sommer Wolfgang H WH Vollstädt-Klein Sabine S Spanagel Rainer R
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 20171101 6
Approved pharmacological treatments for alcohol use disorder are limited in their effectiveness, and new drugs that can easily be translated into the clinic are warranted. One of those candidates is oxytocin because of its interaction with several alcohol-induced effects. Alcohol-dependent rats as well as post-mortem brains of human alcoholics and controls were analyzed for the expression of the oxytocin system by qRT-PCR, in situ hybridization, receptor autoradiography ([<sup>125</sup>I]OVTA bi ...[more]