Animal models of excessive alcohol consumption: recent advances and future challenges

Affiliations

¹ Charleston Alcohol Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA; RHJ Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC 29425, USA. Electronic address: beckerh@musc.edu.
² Gallo Research Center, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.

Howard C Becker et al. Alcohol. 2014 May.

. 2014 May;48(3):205-8.

doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2014.04.001. Epub 2014 Apr 8.

¹ Charleston Alcohol Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA; RHJ Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC 29425, USA. Electronic address: beckerh@musc.edu.
² Gallo Research Center, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.

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