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Alcohol Addiction & The Rat As A Possible Animal For The Study Of Alcoholism, John Graham
Alcohol Addiction & The Rat As A Possible Animal For The Study Of Alcoholism, John Graham
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An attempt was made to produce an animal model for the study of alcoholism. It was hypothesized that the laboratory rat could be brought to physical dependency and maintained in that state under a free-choice circumstance. Two groups of 60-day-old Max hooded rats, consisting of 8 males and 8 females per group, were established to serve as experimental and control subjects. Two experiments were conducted. The intention of the first experiment was to install physical alcohol dependency in the experimental subjects with the use of a totally liquid diet. After the first experiment a 6-hr. period of total abstinence was …