Effects of Ethanol and Caffeine on Behavior in C57BL/6 Mice in the Plus-Maze Discriminative Avoidance Task

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1271-1278

  Gulick, Danielle ^a   Gould, Thomas J ^a  

^a Center for Substance Abuse Research   (United States)

Author keywords

addiction; alcohol; anxiety; learning and memory; locomotion

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CAFFEINE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING DISORDER; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAFFEINE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ETHANOL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 72249093413     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017610     Document Type: Article

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