Alcohol Selection by Rats After Experience with a Sapid Alcohol-Sucrose Solution

Cullen, Joseph W.; Croes, Robert A.; Gillis, Roderic D.

doi:10.15288/qjsa.1973.34.769

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“…Two groups of three male Wi star rats each exhibited mean preferences of .51 and .07 for 10% w /v SGE and E solutions, respectively, when tested under similar conditions for 17 days. When vehicles were reversed, mean E/T of rats previously receiving sweetened 10% ethanol promptly dropped to .08 and mean E/T of rats previously receiving unsweetened 10% ethanol promptly rose to .44, a result similar to that reported for rats by Cullen, Croes, and Gillis (1973).…”

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“…The observed gradual decline in ethanol intake by hamsters previously receiving sweetened ethanol solution may have led to a significant group effect of vehicle treatment reversal, had the reversal period been extended. This finding contrasts with the sharp decline in ethanol intake by rats after removal of sucrose from the solution reported by Cullen, Croes, and Gillis (1973). However, the sustained intake after removal of sweetening does resemble the pattern of retained increased preference for ethanol solution independent of lowered sucrose content of solution exhibited by some mice (Rodgers & McClearn, 1964).…”

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“….125070 sodium saccharin + 3,0070 glucose solution. Sweetening of the available ethanol solution with saccharin or sugars has frequently been employed to elicit an increase in intake of ethanol across a variety of species (e.g., Cullen, Croes, & Gillis, 1973;Eriksson, 1969;Geiger & Barker, 1976;Gilbert, 1974;Myers & Tytell, 1972;Rodgers & McClearn, 1964;Samson & Falk, 1974), but this effect has not been reported for hamsters. However, hamsters are known to greatly prefer a sweetened solution to water in two-bottle tests (Carpenter, 1956;Zucker, Wade, & Ziegler, 1972).…”

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Free-selection ethanol intake of the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus)

Kulkosky

1978

Psychobiology

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Female golden hamsters preferred a 10% w/v ethanol solution presented in a saccharin + glucose vehicle to water in free-selection tests. Although blood ethanol levels attained were higher than previously reported for rats in free-selection experiments, no symptoms of physical dependence on ethanol were apparent in a runway activity test for withdrawal. Arvola and Forsander (1961) reported that golden hamsters show a pronounced preference for a 10070 ethanol solution in 24-h two-bottle tests with water as the alternative fluid. The observed 88070 free-choice preference by hamsters for the ethanol solution greatly exceeded the preferences reported for the hedgehog (Erinaceus europeus) (36.3070), the guinea pig (Cavia porcel/us) (10.8070), the rabbit (Lepus cuniculus) (48.3070), the albino rat (Rattus norvegicus) (29.8070), and the Swiss albino mouse (Mus musculus) (27.1070).

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Free-selection ethanol intake of the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus)

Kulkosky

1978

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Alcohol consumption following bidirectional shifts in body weight in rats

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Harding²

1989

Psychopharmacology

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Weight restriction has frequently been used to induce consumption of pharmacologically significant amounts of alcohol by rats. When previously weight-restricted rats are fed ad lib., however, their alcohol consumption is substantially reduced. This could occur because weight restriction per se causes increased alcohol consumption, or because the stimulus conditions (in this case, largely interoceptive) that were originally associated with drinking have changed, resulting in a stimulus generalization decrement. The present experiment was designed to discriminate between these two possibilities. Two groups of animals, one at free-feeding weight (FFW) and one at 80% FFW were initially trained to drink alcohol in a limited access paradigm. Each group was then divided into two, such that one half remained at its original weight and the other was gradually shifted to the reverse feeding condition in a double cross-over design. When alcohol consumption was again stable the experimental groups were returned to their original weights. If the weight restriction hypothesis were true, animals should drink more when weight-reduced and less when at FFW. According to the stimulus generalization decrement hypothesis, drinking should decrease with any shift from their initial weight. The direction of the results was such as to support the weight restriction hypothesis, but the magnitude of the changes was greater than would be expected on the basis of the respective control groups, and the effects were often transient. In these ways the results more closely resembled positive and negative contrast effects that have traditionally been described following shifts in amount of reinforcement. Possible mechanisms and the importance of an animal's history as a determinant of alcohol consumption are discussed.

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Effect of addition of ethanol and NaCl on saccharin + glucose polydipsia

Kulkosky

1979

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

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Alcohol Selection by Rats After Experience with a Sapid Alcohol-Sucrose Solution

Cited by 9 publications

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Free-selection ethanol intake of the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus)

Free-selection ethanol intake of the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus)

Alcohol consumption following bidirectional shifts in body weight in rats

Effect of addition of ethanol and NaCl on saccharin + glucose polydipsia

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