Abstract
Previous work (Chen, Driscoll, & Riley, 1982) has shown that rat pups exposed to alcohol prenatally take longer to attach to the nipple of a test dam than do controls. However, the earliest age at which pups were tested was 3 days, which leaves open the possibility that the increased latencies might be the result of some altered postnatal experience. In the present study, rat pups whose mothers consumed liquid diets containing 35% or 0% ethanol-derived calories or lab chow were tested for nipple attachment before they had had an opportunity to suckle on their biological mothers. In support of previous data, animals exposed to alcohol prenatally were more apt to show longer attachment latencies than were controls.
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