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Voluntary alcohol intake in two rat lines selectively bred for learned helpless and non-helpless behavior.
Psychopharmacology - 1 Mar 2005
Vengeliene Valentina, Vollmayr Barbara, Henn Fritz A, Spanagel Rainer
Abstract excerpt
RATIONALE: A high comorbidity between depression and alcoholism has been reported in several studies, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unknown. OBJECTIVES: We tested whether learned helplessness in rats as a model for depression is associated with enhanced alcohol intake and relapse behavior. METHODS: Congenital learned helplessness (cLH) and congenital non-learned helplessness (cNLH) rats...
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