Alcohol
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 45-60 , May 2003

Adolescent rats discriminate a mild state of ethanol intoxication likely to act as an appetitive unconditioned stimulus

  • Juan M Fernández-Vidal

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Investigación Médica M. y M. Ferreyra, Córdoba, C.P. 5000, Argentina
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Instituto Ferreyra, Casilla de Correo 389, CP: 5000 Córdoba, Argentina. Tel.: +54-351-468-1465; fax: +54-351-469-5163
    • ,
  • Norman E Spear

      Affiliations

    • Center for Developmental Psychobiology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
    • ,
  • Juan Carlos Molina

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Investigación Médica M. y M. Ferreyra, Córdoba, C.P. 5000, Argentina
    • Center for Developmental Psychobiology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
    • J.C. Molina is also working at Facultad de Psicologı́a, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CP: 5000 Córdoba, Argentina.

Received 29 June 2002 ,Revised 7 March 2003 ,Accepted 22 March 2003.

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Alcohol
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 45-60 , May 2003

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