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GOLDFISH are well suited to the study of the effects of alcohol on behaviour. The concentration of alcohol in their blood rapidly approximates the concentration of alcohol in the water in which they swim1. Thus the study of tolerance, for example, is not complicated by such variables as rate of alcohol absorption. We have studied certain responses of goldfish as a function of time in an alcohol solution, to learn whether tolerance to alcohol develops, and whether it persists after return to water.
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Ryback, R., Percarpio, B., and Vitale, J., Nature, 222, 1068 (1969).
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GOODWIN, D., DOWD, C. & GUZE, S. Biphasic and Reversible Adaptation of Goldfish to Alcohol. Nature 232, 654–655 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/232654a0
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