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Using a lithium induced taste-aversion paradigm with varying concentrations of alcohol (ethanol), C57BL/6J mice showed a higher avoidance threshold than DBA/2J mice, thus indicating that the large strain differences in ethanol preference reported in the literature may be, to some extent, caused by strain differences in the stimulus saliency of ethanol solutions.
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This work was supported by NIDA Grants DA 01215 and DA 01800 awarded to J. K. Belknap.
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Belknap, J.K., Coleman, R.R. & Foster, K. Alcohol consumption and sensory threshold differences between C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice. Psychobiology 6, 71–74 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03326695
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