Ethanol drinking behaviour in Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 443-453

  Colombo, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; WATER; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; DOPAMINE;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CALORIC INTAKE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG PREFERENCE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT STRAIN;

ANIMALIA;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DOPAMINE; ETHANOL; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0031179884     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.alcalc.a008279     Document Type: Article

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