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High-alcohol-drinking rats exhibit persistent freezing responses to discrete cues following Pavlovian fear conditioning.
Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior - 1 Sept 2003
Rorick Linda M, Finn Peter R, Steinmetz Joseph E
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We previously reported that high-alcohol-drinking (HAD) rats exhibited selective deficits in active avoidance learning and that those deficits were partially reversed by moderate doses of ethanol under certain training conditions [Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 75 (2003) 89]. In that study, we hypothesized that HAD deficits resulted from exaggerated fear in the conditioning context and that the anxiolytic properties...
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