Selective breeding for alcohol withdrawal severity.

doi:10.1007/BF01067422

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Selective breeding for alcohol withdrawal severity.

Behavior genetics - 1 Mar 1993

Crabbe J C, Phillips T J

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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 neurochemi...

Topics

Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium
Alcoholism
Animals
Brain
Mice
Mice, Inbred Strains
Models, Genetic
Phenotype
Selection, Genetic

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