Ethanol and gene expression in brain

This article represents the proceedings of a symposium at the 2000 ISBRA Me eting in Yokohama, Japan. The chairs were Izuru Matusmoto and Peter A. Wilc e. The presentations were (1) GABA receptor subunit expression in the human alcoholic brain, by Tracey Buckley and Peter Dodd; (2) NMDAR gene expressi on during ethanol addiction, by Jorg Puzke, Rainer Spanagel, Walther Zieglg ansberger, and Gerald Wolf; (3) Differentially expressed gene in the nucleu s accumbens from ethanol-administered rat, by Shuangying Leng; (4) Expressi on of a novel gene in the alcoholic brain, by Peter A. Wilce; and (5) Inves tigations of haplotypes of the dopamine Da-receptor gene in alcoholics, by Hans Rommelspacher, Ulrich Finckh, and Lutz G. Schmidt.