Alcohol
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 35-45 , August 2005

Discriminative stimulus effects of 5.6mg/kg pregnanolone in DBA/2J and C57BL/6J inbred mice

  • Erin E. Shannon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1083, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-336-713-7157; fax: +1-336-713-7168.
    • ,
  • Robert H. Purdy

      Affiliations

    • Veterans Medical Research Foundation and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, CA 92161, USA
    • Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
    • ,
  • Kathleen A. Grant

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1083, USA

Received 11 July 2005 ,Revised 17 October 2005 ,Accepted 18 October 2005.

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PII: S0741-8329(05)00199-0

doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2005.11.001

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Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 35-45 , August 2005

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