Article
Assessment of the aversive and rewarding effects of alcohol in Fischer and Lewis rats.
Psychopharmacology - 1 Dec 2006
Roma Peter G, Flint Wesley W, Higley J Dee, Riley Anthony L
Abstract excerpt
RATIONALE: Application of the Fischer-Lewis genetic model of drug abuse to the study of alcohol's motivational properties has been limited. OBJECTIVES: To assess the aversive and rewarding effects of ethanol in Fischer and Lewis rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fischer and Lewis rats underwent a four-trial combined conditioned taste aversion/conditioned place preference procedure (CTA/CPP; 0, 1, 1.25, or 1.5 g/kg IP...
Topics
- Alcohol Drinking
- Animals
- Avoidance Learning
- Behavior, Animal
- Body Temperature
- Central Nervous System Depressants
- Conditioning, Psychological
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Ethanol
- Genotype
- Male
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred F344
- Rats, Inbred Lew
- Saccharin
- Substance-Related Disorders
- Taste
