Learned tolerance to the corticosterone-increasing action of ethanol in rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 269-273

  Seeley, Randy J ^a   Hawkins, Michael H ^a   Ramsay, Douglas S ^a   Wilkinson, Charles W ^a   Woods, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Learned tolerance; Rats

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG TOLERANCE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BLOOD; CATHETERIZATION; ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; STOMACH;

ANIMALS; CATHETERIZATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CORTICOSTERONE; CUES; DRUG TOLERANCE; ENVIRONMENT; ETHANOL; LEARNING; MALE; RATS; STOMACH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030253232     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(96)00081-0     Document Type: Article

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