Do intermittent presentations of ethanol sipper tube induce ethanol drinking in rats?
Intermittent Sipper procedures provide less access to the ethanol sipper, yet induced more ethanol drinking than Continuous Sipper procedures. The intermittent sipper effect is not dependent on presentations of food. Implications for schedule-induced polydipsia and Pavlovian autoshaping are discussed.
A diet sufficiently replete with AA is essential during the gestational period for normal tissue development in the fetus and neonate.