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Relationship between alcohol motivation and ethanol sensitivity and blood and brain catecholamine content in the progeny of rats preferring and nonpreferring alcohol.
Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine - 1 Oct 2002
Anokhina I P, Stanishevskaya A V, L'vova O F, Veretinskaya A G, Khristolyubova N A
Abstract excerpt
A system of neurochemical signs indicating predisposition to high ethanol consumption is formed in the third generation descendants of ethanol-preferring male rats. Risk-group males are detected (with 95% probability) by the content of dopamine and norepinephrine and their ratio in the brain. Alcohol motivation depends on blood epinephrine content reflecting individual sensitivity to stress.
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