Relating acoustic startle reactivity and plasticity to alcohol consumption in male Wistar rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 723-733

  Sandbak, Tone ^a   Rimol, Lars M ^a   Jellestad, Finn K ^a   Murison, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle response; Ethanol consumption; Ethanol withdrawal; Habituation; Prepulse inhibition; Rats

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STARTLE REACTION; TIME;

EID: 0034027194     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(99)00239-5     Document Type: Article

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