Rats that had been given oxytocin didn’t seem to get drunk. “Those that had the oxytocin were up and moving about as if they hadn’t had any alcohol at all, whereas the ones that didn’t ...

[Video - Watch Drunk Rats in Action] In the so-called wire-hanging test, the rats were placed on a wire mesh platform. An experimenter would then shake the platform, causing the rat to grip the ...

A lower blood-alcohol level means less intoxication: the nicotine-dosed rats were less drunk than their colleagues. But Chen notes that smoking would not ameliorate the other effects of alcohol or ...

But hard-drinking rats may have just revealed the answer: In a study published Thursday in the journal PLOS Genetics, hundreds of genes associated with alcoholism in rats have just been identified.

It’s all thanks to some drunk rats. In a recent study published in PLOS Genetics, scientists at Indiana and Purdue universities identified hundreds of genes that seem to affect the disposition ...

Here's the key data: some rats were given a lot of alcohol for four days (the "binge"), and then allowed to sober up for a week. Before, during and after their rodent Spring Break, they had brain ...

Pigeon-guided missiles, rats and pigs breathing through their anuses, dead trouts that can swim, and drunk worms are among the unusual scientific breakthroughs that make up the winners of this ...

“DHM will reduce the degree of drunkenness for the amount of alcohol drunk and will definitely reduce ... To do this, she measured how long it took for treated rats to right themselves after ...

They found the caps of the 12 quarter liquor bottles open, with bite marks of rats and wine in them emptied, official sources said. (Photo used for representation) Udhagamandalam: In a bizarre ...