Abstract

CHACON-LOZSAN, Francisco J; GARCIA, Douglas; BONFANTE, Rafael  and  DAZA, Damelis. Spontaneous alcohol consumption behavior effects on NMRI mice under discontinuous stress. AVFT [online]. 2013, vol.32, n.2, pp.39-44. ISSN 0798-0264.

With the aim to evaluate the effects of spontaneous alcohol consumption on NMRI mice submitted to discontinuous stress. We designed a 4 experimental groups: Control (n=21), control-stress (n=25), Alcohol (n=23) and Alcoholstress (n=31); witch posterior to pre-trials, received ethanol (10%) and water ad libitum and were subject of force swimming test at 5ºC for 1minnute three times/week. Succeeding, we evaluate locomotor activity in motility cage, anxiety on cross maze and working memory on 8-arm radial maze. All pre-trials results were same; likewise a significant higher percent of alcohol-stress group remaining more time in open arms than closed at cross maze, vertical hypomotility and displayed expend more time to solve the radial maze, all compared against the others groups. The results that stress behavior potentiate behavior disturbance observed in alcoholic animals.

Keywords : Alcohol; stress; behavior.