Stress Increases Voluntary Alcohol Intake, but Does not Alter Established Drinking Habits in a Rat Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 566-574

  Meyer, Edward M ^a   Long, Virginia ^b,c   Fanselow, Michael S ^c   Spigelman, Igor ^a  

^a UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Quinine; Sucrose; Two Bottle choice

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; QUININE; SUCROSE;

ACUTE STRESS; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FLUID INTAKE; FOOTSHOCK; FREEZING; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HABITS; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84875646403     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12012     Document Type: Article

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