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SUBMITTER: Miler K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5992188 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miler Krzysztof K Kuszewska Karolina K Privalova Valeriya V Woyciechowski Michal M
Scientific reports 20180607 1
The honeybee is being developed as a simple invertebrate model for alcohol-related studies. To date, several effects of ethanol consumption have been demonstrated in honeybees, but the tolerance effect, one of the hallmarks of alcohol overuse, has never been shown. Here, we confirm our hypothesis that the response to ethanol (in terms of motor impairment) is lower in bees that have previously experienced intoxication than in bees encountering ethanol for the first time, indicating that the chron ...[more]