Preference for saccharin-sweetened alcohol relative to isocaloric sucrose

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 72-78

  Heyman, Gene M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol self administration; animal model; behavioral economics; choice; ethanol; lever press; quinine; rats; substitutability; sucrose; variable interval schedule

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; QUININE; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG PREFERENCE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ETHANOL; FOOD PREFERENCES; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SACCHARIN; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS;

EID: 0031015277     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130050164     Document Type: Article

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