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Selective breeding for alcohol withdrawal severity.
Behavior genetics - 1 Mar 1993
Crabbe J C, Phillips T J
Abstract excerpt
Mouse lines have been genetically selected to be alcohol Withdrawal Seizure Prone (WSP) or Resistant (WSR). The selection index is the severity of withdrawal handling-induced convulsions seen after removal of mice from chronic exposure to ethanol vapor. Behavioral, pharmacological, and neurochemical results from a replicated bidirectional selection project are reviewed. In reciprocal F1 crosses of the WSP and WSR...
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