Experimental anxiety and the reinforcing effects of ethanol in rats

In order to examine the relationship between anxiety and reinforcing effects of alcohol, drug-naive male Wistar rats weighing 250-300 g were classified as "anxious" and "non-anxious" in the elevated plus-maze test. A conditioned place preference test was then used to investigate...

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Main Authors: S.L. Blatt, R.N. Takahashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 1999-04-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X1999000400013