Alcohol Preference and Voluntary Alcohol Intakes of Inbred Rat Strains and the National Institutes of Health Heterogeneous Stock of Rats
- 1 September 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research
- Vol. 8 (5) , 485-486
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1984.tb05708.x
Abstract
The alcohol preference ratios and the daily free‐choice ethanol intakes (10% ethanol versus water) of the newly constituted National Institutes of Health (NIH) heterogeneous stock (N/Nih) rats, and of the eight inbred strains from which N/Nih derived, were measured. Among the eight inbred strains, ACI/N, WKY/N, F344/N, BUF/N, BN/ Ssn, WN/N, M520/N, and MR/N, the ACI exhibited the lowest preference and intakes and the MR and the M520 the highest The mean values for the N/Nih animals were intermediate among those of the inbred strains. The range of intake for the N/Nih rats was 0.06‐9.5 g/kg of body weight/day, indicating that they should serve as an appropriate foundation in selection studies for alcohol‐drinking preference.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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