Matching law choice analyses of ethanol and sucrose consumption in alcohol-preferring (P), nonpreferring (NP), and Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1338-1348

  Martinetti, Margaret P ^a,b   Khan, Zeeshan ^a   Lewis, Michael J ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; EtOH Self Administration; Matching Law; P Rats; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SUCROSE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHANOL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUCROSE; TASTE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34447332295     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2007.00428.x     Document Type: Article

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