Assessment of the interoceptive effects of alcohol in rats using short-term training procedures

Alcohol

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 747-755

  Besheer, Joyce ^a,b   Fisher, Kristen R ^a   Durant, Brandon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Alcoholism; Discriminative stimulus; Drinking; Drug discrimination; Ethanol; Operant; Pavlovian; Subjective

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ETHANOL; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SELF ADMINISTRATION; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS;

EID: 84869097455     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: 18736823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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