title: Neuropeptide y and alcoholism: genetic, molecular, and pharmacological evidence.
abstract: This article presents the proceedings of a symposium presented at the combined meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism, held in San Francisco, CA, in June 2002. The organizers and chairpersons were Subhash C. Pandey and Todd E. Thiele. The presentations were (1) Altered ethanol-induced sedation and ethanol drinking in mutant mice lacking specific NPY receptor, by Todd E. Thiele; (2) NPY in P and NP rats: polymorphism and mRNA expression, by Lucinda G. Carr; (3) The cAMP-dependent PKA in the central amygdala regulates alcohol intake through NPY gene, by Subhash C. Pandey; (4) Involvement of NPY in alcohol dependence: from animal models to human genetics, by Markus Heilig; and (5) Association of neuropeptide Y polymorphism with the occurrence of type 1 and type 2 alcoholism, by Erkki Ilveskoski.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Institute, University of Illinois, IL 60612, USA. scpandey@uic.edu
authors.forename: Subhash C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Pandey
authors.forename: Lucinda G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Carr
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heilig
authors.forename: Erkki
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ilveskoski
authors.forename: Todd E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Thiele
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000235:genetics* / Q000503:physiopathology; D000679:Amygdala / Q000503:physiopathology; D000818:Animals; D017868:Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D008818:Mice, Neurologic Mutants; D009478:Neuropeptide Y / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D017476:Receptors, Neuropeptide Y / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D009478:Neuropeptide Y; D017476:Receptors, Neuropeptide Y; D017868:Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases