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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol. 2022 Feb 15;100:41–56. doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2022.02.001

Table 3.

Negative affective behaviors that emerge during abstinence from voluntary alcohol drinking in mice.

Study Model (duration) Strain (sex) Test (time into abstinence)
Continuous alcohol drinking
1 Pang et al., 2013a 2BC (24 h/d; 6 wk) C57BL/6J (F) SP, EPM (14 d); LDB, NSF (17 d); FS (19 d)
2 Pang et al., 2013b 2BC (24 h/d; 6 wk) C57BL/6J (F) SP (15 d); FS (17 d)
3 Stevenson et al., 2009 2BC (24 h/d; 4 wk) C57BL/6J (M) FS, OF (1 d, 14 d)
4 Holleran et al., 2016 2BC (24 h/d; 6 wk) C57BL/6J (F) FS (1 d, 18 d); EPM (14 d); NSF (15 d, 35 d)
5 Vranjkovic et al., 2018 2BC (24 h/d; 6 wk) C57BL/6J (F) EPM (1 d, 7 d); NSF (14 d); FS (21 d)
6 Gong et al., 2017 2/3BC (24 h/d; 3–6 wk) C57BL/6J (M) OF, LDB (12 h); EPM (1 d), FS (13 d), TS (14 d)
7 Centanni et al., 2019 2BC (24 h/d; 6 wk) C57BL/6J (F+M) NSF (15 d); FS (21 d)
8 van Rijn et al., 2010 2BC (4 h/d; 5d) C57BL/6J (M) EPM, LDB (24 h)
9 Dao et al., 2020 2BC (24 h/d; 6 wk) C57BL/6J (F+M) EPM (7 d); OF (14 d); SP (21 d); FS (28 d)
Intermittent drinking
10 Bloch et al., 2020 2BC (3 d/wk; 7 wk) C57BL/6J (F+M) EZM (1d); NO (19–20 d); NSF (27–28 d)
11 Wang et al., 2021 2BC (3 d/wk; 3 wk) C57BL/6J (M) OF (12 h); EPM (12 h)
12 Hwa et al., 2015 2BC (3 d/wk; 1– 8 wk) Swiss-Webster (M) Agg, SA (6–8 h)
13 Quijano Carde et al 2022 2BC (3 d/wk; 10 wk) C57BL/6J (F+M) EPM, MB, OF (24 h)
Drinking-in-the-dark
14 Lee et al., 2015 DID (6 wk) C57BL/6J (M) SP, LDB, NO, FS, EPM, MB (1–2 d, 21–22 d)
15 Lee et al., 2016 DID (14 d) C57BL/6J (M) NO, FS (1 d); MB (2 d)
16 Lee, Coehlo, Solton et al., 2017 DID (14 d) C57BL/6J (M) MB, FS, SP (1 d); MB, FS, SP (28 d)
17 Olney et al., 2018 DID (1, 3, 6 wk) C57BL/6J (M) FS (1 d); SP (1 wk)
18 Szumlinski et al., 2019 DID (14 d) C57BL/6J (F+M) ACS, NO, FS, LDB, MB (1–2 d, 30–31 d)
19 Bloodgood et al., 2020 DID (4 wk) OPRK1/Pdyn KO mice (F+M) EPM (8 h)
20 Belmer et al., 2018 DID (12–14 wk) C57BL/6J (M) EPM, MB, OF (24 h)
21 Rath 2020 DID (8–19 wk) C57BL/6J (F+M) EPM, LDB, MB (36 h)
22 Cox et al., 2013 DID (1, 3, 6, 10 wk) C57BL/6J (M) EPM, OF (1 d)
23 Flanigan et al., 2022 DID (3 wk) C57BL/6J (F+M) SA, OF, ACS (7 d)

Bold font indicates an alcohol-induced change in behavior. Study numbers are identified in Figure 2. ACS, acoustic startle; Agg, aggression; BB, bottle-brush; EPM/EZM, elevated plus maze/elevated zero maze; FS, forced swim; L-D, light-dark box; MB, marble burying; NO, novel object encounter; NSF, novelty-suppressed feeding; OF, open field; SA, social approach; SP, sucrose/saccharin preference; TS, tail suspension; M, male; F, female; KO, knockout.