Article
Gender differences in animal studies. Implications for the study of human alcoholism.
Recent developments in alcoholism : an official publication of the American Medical Society on Alcoholism, the Research Society on Alcoholism, and the National Council on Alcoholism - 1 Jan 1995
Lancaster F E
Abstract excerpt
The reasons for gender differences in alcohol intake, responses to alcohol, and consequences of alcohol abuse in humans and in animals are poorly understood. Animal models for the study of alcoholism have been focused primarily on the study of male rodents, although researchers have observed that female rodents drink more alcohol than males and have sex-related differences in drinking patterns and responses to...
Topics
- Alcohol Drinking
- Alcoholism
- Animals
- Arousal
- Brain
- Disease Models, Animal
- Estrus
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Motivation