Article
Escalation of intake under intermittent ethanol access in diverse mouse genotypes.
Addiction biology - 1 May 2013
Rosenwasser Alan M, Fixaris Michael C, Crabbe John C, Brooks Peter C, Ascheid Sonja
Abstract excerpt
Experimental animals offered continuous 24-hour free choice access to ethanol rarely display voluntary ethanol consumption at levels sufficient to induce intoxication or to engender dependence. One of the simplest ways to increase voluntary ethanol intake is to impose temporal limitations on ethanol availability. Escalation of ethanol intake has been observed in both rats and mice under a variety of different...
Topics
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Binge Drinking
- Central Nervous System Depressants
- Ethanol
- Genotype
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Motor Activity
- Substance Withdrawal Syndrome
