Chronic ethanol consumption induces tolerance to the spatial memory impairing effects of acute ethanol administration in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 239-246

  Boulouard, Michel ^a   Lelong, Véronique ^a   Daoust, Martine ^b   Naassila, Mickaël ^b  

^a CENTRE D ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHE SUR LE MÉDICAMENT DE NORMANDIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

Acute ethanol; Chronic ethanol consumption; Ethanol tolerance; Locomotor activity; Morris water maze; Rat; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ACUTE DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TOLERANCE; INTOXICATION; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRAINING;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DRUG TOLERANCE; ETHANOL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037126186     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00134-1     Document Type: Article

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