Ethanol prenatal exposure induces alcohol preference in adolescent Wistar rats.

ALIMONTA RIOS, RUBEN; PECILE, ANDREA; ARONNE MARIA PAULA; BRUSCO ALICIA

Mexico DF

Congreso; 4th Meeting of the International Drug Abuse Research Society; 2013

Alcoholuse has been identified as the third leading preventable cause of death. Ethanol prenatal exposure (EPE) has been shown to affect subsequent recognition of the drug´s odor and/or taste. The objective of this work was to study thte alcohol preference using the experimental model of choose between two bottles, one with ethanol 6% v/v and the other with water, between rats penatally exposed to ethanol and ethanol naive rats. Twelve nullipare pregnant Wistar rats were used. Eight of them wre fed one month before and during pregnancy and lactation with a liquid diet dwith 5,9%v/v ethanol; four control rats were fed with a liquid diet without ethanol.