Differential Rearing Conditions and Alcohol-Preferring Rats: Consumption of and Operant Responding for Ethanol

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 184-193

  Deehan, Gerald A ^a   Palmatier, Matthew I ^a   Cain, Mary E ^a   Kiefer, Stephen W ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol preferring rat; Differential rearing conditions; Environmental enrichment; Ethanol

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SUCROSE; WATER;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REARING; REINFORCEMENT; WATER DEPRIVATION;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ETHANOL; MALE; RATS; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 79954461850     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022627     Document Type: Article

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