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    • Quiroz, Gabriel; Guerra-Díaz, Nicolás; Iturriaga-Vásquez, Patricio; Rivera Meza, Mario; Quintanilla González, María Elena; Sotomayor Zárate, Ramón (Elsevier, 2018-09)
      Alcohol abuse is a worldwide health problem with high economic costs to health systems. Emerging evidence suggests that modulation of brain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) may be a therapeutic target for alcohol ...
    • Rivera Meza, Mario; Muñoz, Daniel; Jerez, Erik; Quintanilla González, María Elena; Salinas Luypaert, Catalina; Fernandez, Katia; Karahanian, Eduardo (Frontiers media SA, 2017)
      We have previously shown that the administration of fenofibrate to high-drinker UChB rats markedly reduces voluntary ethanol intake. Fenofibrate is a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPAR a) agonist, which ...
    • Muñoz, Daniel; Rivera Meza, Mario; Flores Bastías, Osvaldo; Quintanilla González, María Elena; Karahanian, Eduardo (Socidrogalcohol. Sociedad Científica Española de Estudio sobre el Alcohol, el Alcoholismo y las otras Toxocomanías, 2020)
      Tras consumir etanol, el disulfiram incrementa los niveles de acetaldehído en sangre y genera una reacción aversiva que desalienta el consumo de alcohol. Dados los importantes efectos secundarios del disulfiram, es ...
    • Quintanilla González, María Elena; Rivera Meza, Mario; Berríos Cárcamo, Pablo; Cassels Niven, Bruce; Herrera-Marschitz Muller, Mario; Israel Jacard, Yedy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
      Ethanol is oxidized in the brain to acetaldehyde, which can condense with dopamine to generate (R/S)-salsolinol [(RS)-SAL]. Racemic salsolinol [(RS)-SAL] is self-infused by rats into the posterior ventral tegmental area ...
    • Quintanilla González, María Elena; Tampier de Jong, Lutske; Karahanian, Eduardo; Rivera Meza, Mario; Herrera-Marschitz Muller, Mario; Israel Jacard, Yedy (2012-03)
      Background: In animal models of continuous alcohol self-administration, in which physical dependence does not constitute the major factor of ethanol intake, 2 factors likely contribute to the perpetuation of alcohol ...