A simplified procedure for producing ethanol self-selection in rats.
Procedures almost exclusively involving the use of operant conditioning equipment have been successful in training rats to drink ethanol and establishing ethanol as a reinforcer. The present report describes a variation of this procedure which, in a relatively short period of time also establishes ethanol as a reinforcer, results in significant blood ethanol levels, but does not require extensive programming or recording equipment and is therefore more amenable to studies in which large numbers of animals are required.
D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000818:Animals; D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D003216:Conditioning, Operant / Q000502:physiology; D000431:Ethanol / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology
D000431:Ethanol