Effects of ethanol consumption by adult female rats on subsequent consumption by adolescents
| dc.contributor.author | Honey, P. Lynne | |
| dc.contributor.author | Varley, Kevin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Galef Jr, Bennett | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-27T01:14:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-05-27T01:14:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.description.abstract | We used a two-bottle choice test to measure voluntary ethanol consumption by adolescent rats that had lived with ethanol-consuming or water-consuming adult conspecifics. We found that housing weanlings with either a virgin or a lactating adult female rat that ingested ethanol increased the weanlings' subsequent voluntary intake of ethanol when they were fluid-deprived and provided with choices between 8% ethanol solution and water for 2 h/day. Rats housed with both an ethanol-consuming virgin female and their water-consuming dam drank more ethanol than did rats housed with a dam and virgin female, both consuming water. Rats housed with an ethanol-consuming dam and ethanol consuming adult virgin did not drink more ethanol than did rats housed with an ethanol-consuming dam and a water-consuming virgin female. In sum: (1) young rats learned socially to consume ethanol. (2) Exposure to ethanol in mother's milk was not necessary for such social learning to occur, and (3) living with an ethanol-consuming unfamiliar, virgin female conspecific resulted in enhanced ethanol intake by adolescent rats, even if a water-consuming dam was also present. | |
| dc.description.uri | https://library.macewan.ca/cgi-bin/SFX/url.pl/87U | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Honey, P.L., Varley, K.R. & Galef, B.G., Jr. (2004). Effects of ethanol consumption by adult female rats on subsequent consumption by adolescents. Appetite, 42, 299-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2004.01.002 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2004.01.002 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/491 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved | |
| dc.subject | Ethanol | |
| dc.subject | Rats | |
| dc.subject | Early exposure | |
| dc.subject | Social learning | |
| dc.title | Effects of ethanol consumption by adult female rats on subsequent consumption by adolescents | en |
| dc.type | Article | |
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