ISSN:
1432-2072
Keywords:
Alcohol Preference
;
Ethanol Intake
;
Fluid Intake
;
Drinking Patterns for Alcohol
;
Tolerance to Ethyl Alcohol
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Summary When offered water and different solutions of ethyl alcohol in a freechoice situation, naive rats prefer alcohol at low concentrations but reject alcohol as the concentrations are increased sequentially. Rats which were either group or individually housed and forced to drink a non-preferred 12 or 15 per cent alcohol solution, drank less alcohol than control animals in a subsequent free-choice test. On the other hand, the animals that were repeatedly exposed to 11-day periods during which the concentrations of alcohol were systematically increased from 3 to 30 per cent consumed two to three times more alcohol in the seventh sequence than in the first sequence. In the free-choice situation this acclimation effect occurred when water was constantly present. This method appears to be useful for inducing animals to consume large volumes of ethyl alcohol.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00403711
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