PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1952 11 SOUSED MOUSE: f Alcoholic Rodents Take After Drunken Parents By JOYCE FICKIES Mice with inebriated ancestors could probably drink their par- ents under the table, a recent re- port of a college researcher has in- dicated. Their taste for alcohol may not only be habit forming, but inher- ited to boot. CONDUCTOR of the experiment Prof. Leonora Mirone of the ti- versity of Georgia nutrition de- partment, started her project by raising two groups of mice, one on an alcoholic brew, the other ,n water. When later given a free choice of beverage, those raised on alcohol drank "substantially more" than those who had been kept on the wagon. Prof. Mirone then divided the tipsy rodents into two groups, again. raising half on water and half on alcohol. THE ALCOHOL-FED mice even outdrank their parents, while their more sober brethren drank less than they did, but consumed more than had the original water- fed mice from water-fed parents. A University professor yester- day said that, while young mice may inherit alcoholic tendencies from their parents, this doesn't apply at all to humans. Prof. Leonard E. Himler of the School of Public Health explained that inheritance of alcoholism in rodents is plausible because of "vulnerable nerve plasm" occa- sioned by their short reproductive cycles. * * * ' HE EMPHASIZED that the cause of chronic drinking prob- lems in humans "certainly isn't heredity, but a multiplicity of (en- vironmental) problems." "As far as I know this is the first time anything like that has been carried on with animals," the professor stated. The only local experiment he could recall involving humans was a test of the mental efficiency of students before and after drink- ing alcoholic beverages, conduct- ed several years ago on campus. Their mental efficiency dimin- ished up to 15 per cent, he said, although the subjects felt even sharper and more alert than usual. 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