Behavioural features of alcohol-preferring rats: Focus on inbred strains

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 378-385

  Overstreet, David H ^a   Rezvani, Amir H ^a   Parsian, Abbas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SACCHARIN; SEROTONIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HEREDITY; INBREEDING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ETHANOL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PHENYLALANINE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SACCHARIN;

ANIMALIA; NEPTUNIA;

EID: 0033058473     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/34.3.378     Document Type: Conference Paper

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