Animal models for the study of alcoholism: utility of selected lines.

摘要: One recent advance in the field of alcohol research has been recognition that a predisposition to develop alcoholism is, part, genetically determined. It now remains identify factors, which, when inherited, increase risk for alcoholism. approach this problem is analyze how organisms with identifiable genetic towards ethanol drinking differ from without risk. Such an may lead identification neurochemical, neurophysiological or neuroanatomical factors inherited alone, combination, serve predispose organism drinking.