Adolescent rats discriminate a mild state of ethanol intoxication likely to act as an appetitive unconditioned stimulus

Alcohol

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-60

  Fernández Vidal, Juan M ^a   Spear, Norman E ^b   Molina, Juan Carlos ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN MÉDICA MERCEDES Y MARTÍN FERREYRA   (Argentina)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Adolescent rat; Appetitive conditioning; Ethanol; Nose poking; State discrimination; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TASTE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037767521     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0741-8329(03)00093-4     Document Type: Article

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