Alcohol
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 9-14 , May 2001

Ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion in the rat: effects of 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine lesion of the dorsal raphe nucleus

  • Jerzy Piasecki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, ul. Sobieskiego 1/9, PL-02957, Warsaw, Poland
    • ,
  • Przemyslaw Bienkowski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, ul. Sobieskiego 1/9, PL-02957, Warsaw, Poland
    • ,
  • Krzysztof Dudek

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, ul. Sobieskiego 1/9, PL-02957, Warsaw, Poland
    • Department of Surgery, Warsaw Medical University, 02-971 Warsaw, Poland
    • ,
  • Eliza Koros

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, ul. Sobieskiego 1/9, PL-02957, Warsaw, Poland
    • ,
  • Wojciech Kostowski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, ul. Sobieskiego 1/9, PL-02957, Warsaw, Poland
    • Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Warsaw Medical University, 00-572Warsaw, Poland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, ul. Sobieskiego 1/9, PL-02957, Warsaw, Poland. Tel.: +48-22-842-76-44; fax: +48-22-642-53-75

Received 9 May 2000 ,Revised 2 January 2001 ,Accepted 26 January 2001.

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