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Methods for Intravenous Self Administration in a Mouse Model
Published on: December 8, 2012
Intravenous self-administration of ethanol in mice
Nicholas J Grahame1, Christopher L Cunningham
1Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Current Protocols in Neuroscience
|April 23, 2008
Abstract:
A more complete understanding of alcohols reinforcing actions is obtained when multiple behavioral procedures are used, some of which bypass taste factors. This unit describes a method for assessing the reinforcing effects of alcohol in mice using the most widely accepted procedure for assessing drug reward: intravenous self-administration.

