Morphine enhances selection of both sucrose and ethanol in a two-bottle test

Alcohol

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-62

  Stromberg, Michael F ^a,c   Meister, Stephen ^a   Volpicelli, Joseph R ^a   Ulm, Ronald R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SALISBURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Treatment Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol abuse; Ethanol; Morphine; Opioids; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; SUCROSE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TASTE PREFERENCE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DRINKING; MALE; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SUCROSE; TASTE;

EID: 0031017341     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0741-8329(96)00107-3     Document Type: Article

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