Article
Effects of Nicotine on Alcohol Drinking in Female Mice Selectively Bred for High or Low Alcohol Preference.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Feb 2018
Weera Marcus M, Fields Molly A, Tapp Danielle N, Grahame Nicholas J, Chester Julia A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Studies show that repeated nicotine use associates with high alcohol consumption in humans and that nicotine exposure sometimes increases alcohol consumption in animal models. However, the relative roles of genetic predisposition to high alcohol consumption, the alcohol drinking patterns, and the timing of nicotine exposure both with respect to alcohol drinking and developmental stage remain unclear....
Topics
- Alcohol Drinking
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal
- Binge Drinking
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Mice
- Models, Animal
- Nicotine
- Nicotinic Agonists
- Selective Breeding