Alcohol
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 25-34 , May 2001

Ethanol preference in Maudsley and RXNRA recombinant inbred strains of rats

  • Nelson Adams

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, 601 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27110, USA
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  • Tonya D Oldham

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, 601 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27110, USA
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  • Joseph T Briscoe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, 601 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27110, USA
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  • JoAnna A Hannah

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, 601 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27110, USA
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  • David A Blizard

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

Received 26 November 1999 ,Revised 5 February 2001 ,Accepted 11 February 2001.

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