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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 25.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Lett. 2010 Dec 21;490(2):90–95. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.12.033

Table 1.

Effect of acamprosate treatment in the NAc

Metabolites Wild-type
ENT1–/–
Saline Acamprosate Saline Acamprosate
N-acetylaspartatic acid (NAA) 0.76 ± 0.03 (12) 0.77 ± 0.03 (10) 0.87 ± 0.02* (12) 0.77 ± 0.04 (12)
Glutamate (Glu) 0.89 ± 0.03 (10) 0.94 ± 0.03 (10) 0.98 ± 0.03* (10) 0.92 ± 0.03 (10)
Glutamine (Gln) 0.40 ± 0.01 (10) 0.39 ± 0.02 (10) 0.45 ± 0.01* (10) 0.37 ± 0.02 (10)
Glutamate+Glutamine (Glx) 1.26 ± 0.04 (10) 1.33 ± 0.04 (10) 1.43 ± 0.04* (10) 1.29 ± 0.05 (10)
Glycerophosphocholine+Phosphocholine (GPC+PCh) 0.34 ± 0.01 (12) 0.33 ± 0.01 (10) 0.35 ± 0.01 (12) 0.31 ± 0.01 (12)
Taurine (Tau) 1.22 ± 0.03 (10) 1.23 ± 0.06 (10) 1.21 ± 0.03 (12) 1.41 ± 0.06*, (11)
N-acetylaspartylglutamic acid (NAAG) 0.17 ± 0.02 (10) 0.12 ± 0.01 (4) 0.15 ± 0.01 (6) 0.16 ± 0.01 (7)
Alanine (Ala) 0.26 ± 0.04 (8) 0.19 ± 0.01 (7) 0.21 ± 0.02 (9) 0.21 ± 0.02 (9)
γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) 0.62 ± 0.04 (12) 0.61 ± 0.04 (10) 0.68 ± 0.03 (12) 0.65 ± 0.04 (12)
Guanosine (Gua) 0.59 ± 0.04 (11) 0.57 ± 0.03 (10) 0.53 ± 0.02 (12) 0.56 ± 0.03 (11)
Lactate (Lac) 0.40 ± 0.03 (10) 0.48 ± 0.11 (7) 0.49 ± 0.06 (10) 0.46 ± 0.04 (6)
myo-Inositol (Ins) 1.08 ± 0.05 (12) 0.97 ± 0.10 (10) 1.12 ± 0.04 (12) 1.02 ± 0.03 (12)
Phosphocreatine (PCr) 0.84 ± 0.04 (12) 0.87 ± 0.05 (10) 0.77 ± 0.03 (11) 0.84 ± 0.04 (12)
*

p < 0.05 compared to wild-type mice within each treatment group by two-tailed t-test.

p < 0.05 compared to saline treated group within each genotype by two-tailed t-test.

Metabolites are measured relative to total creatine. All data are expressed as mean ± SEM. Number in parentheses is number of mice used in statistical analyses based on Cramér-Rao lower bounds. See “Materials and Methods” for detailed inclusion criteria for statistical analyses.