The impact of moderate daily alcohol consumption on aggression and the formation of dominance hierarchies in rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-94

  Duncan, Elizabeth A ^a,c   Tamashiro, Kellie L K ^a   Nguyen, Mary M N ^a   Gardner, Stacy R ^b   Woods, Stephen C ^b   Sakai, Randall R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Alcohol; Dominant; Social stress; Subordinate; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

QUININE; SUCROSE;

AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HOUSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; TRAINING;

AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CORTICOSTERONE; DARKNESS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHANOL; LIGHT; MALE; QUININE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF ADMINISTRATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SUCROSE; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750206133     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-006-0536-7     Document Type: Article

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