Table 1

 

Line/species

Selection phenotype

Replicates?a

Sourceb

Withdrawal Seizure Prone/Resistant mice (WSP/WSR)

Handling-induced convulsions after ethanol vapor inhalation

Yes

1

High/Low Ethanol Withdrawal mice (HW/LW)

Handling-induced convulsions after ethanol vapor inhalation

Yes

2

Preferring/Nonpreferring rats (P/NP)

Preference for drinking 10% ethanol

No

3

High/Low Alcohol Drinking rats (HAD/LAD)

Preference for drinking 10% ethanol

Yes

3

ALKO Alcohol/Nonalcohol rats (AA/ANA)

Preference for drinking 10% ethanol

No

4

Low/High ethanol consuming rats (UChA/UChB)

Preference for drinking 10% ethanol

No

5

Sardinian Preferring/Nonpreferring Rats (sP/sNP)

Preference for drinking 10% ethanol

No

6

High/Low Alcohol Preference mice (HAP/LAP)

Preference for drinking 10% ethanol

Yes

3

ALKO tolerant/nontolerant rats (AT/ANT)

Ethanol impairment of tilting-plane performance

No

7

Long/Short Sleep mice (LS/SS)

Duration of loss of righting reflex after ethanol

No

2

High/Low Alcohol Sensitive rats (HAS/LAS)

Duration of loss of righting reflex after ethanol

Yes

7

COLD/HOT mice

Acute ethanol hypothermia

Yes

1

FAST/SLOW mice

Ethanol-stimulated open-field activity

Yes

1

High/Low Alcohol Functional Tolerance mice (HAFT/LAFT)

Acute ethanol functional tolerance on stationary rod balancing

Yes

2

HIGH/LOW Analgesic Response mice (HAR/LAR)

Levorphanol analgesia in the hotplate test

No

1

High/Low Stress-Induced Analgesia (HA/LA)

Analgesia induced by cold water swim stress

No

8

Diazepam Sensitive/Resistant mice (DS/DR)

Diazepam-induced rotarod ataxia

No

1

Diazepam High/Low Responders (DHR/DHL)

Diazepam-induced rotarod ataxia

Yes

1

High/Low Diazepam Sensitive mice

Diazepam-induced loss of righting reflex

No

9

Flinders Sensitive/Resistant rats (FSL/FRL)

Diisopropylflurophosphate hypothermia

No

10

Neuroleptic Responder/Nonresponder mice (NR/NNR)

Haloperidol-induced catalepsy

Yes

11

Taste Aversion Prone/Resistant rats (TAP/TAR)

Cyclophosphamide-induced conditioned taste-aversions

No

12

Nicotine Activated/Depressed mice (NA/ND)

Nicotine sensitive Y-maze activity and body temperature

Yes

2

 

"Replicates" refers to the existence of genetically distinct duplicate selected lines. Thus, there are two WSP (WSP-1 and WSP-2) and two WSR (WSR-1 and WSR-2) lines. Adapted and updated from (26).

 

Sources for selected lines

  1.  Animal Research Facility, Research Service (151Z), VA Medical Center, Portland, OR, 97201 USA

  2.  Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Box 447, Boulder, CO, 80309 USA

  3.  Department of Medicine, Indiana University, Emerson Hall 421, 545 Barnhill Drive, Indianapolis, IN, 46202 USA

  4.  ALKO Research Laboratories, PO Box 350, SF-10100 Helsinki 10, Finland

  5.  Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidad de Chile, PO Box 70.000, Santiago 9, Chile

  6.  Department of Experimental Biology, University of Cagliari, Via Palabanda 12, Cagliari, Italy 09123

  7.  Department of Pharmacology (C-236), Univ. Colorado Health Sciences Ctr., 4200 E. Ninth Avenue, Denver, CO, 80262 USA

  8.  Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA

  9.  Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore 0511

10.  Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27514 USA

11.  Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-8101 USA

12.  Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Med. College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30910, USA

 

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published 2000