Hyponeophagia in Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats.

doi:10.1016/0031-9384(94)90090-6

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Hyponeophagia in Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats.

Physiology & behavior - 1 May 1994

Paré W P

Abstract excerpt

Unconditioned suppression of feeding due to novelty (hyponeophagia) was studied in Wistar Kyoto (WKY), Lewis, Fischer 344, and Wistar rats. Fasted rats were given access to food either in home cages (controls) or to a single pellet fixed to the middle of a novel open field environment (experiment...

Topics

Animals
Appetitive Behavior
Arousal
Feeding Behavior
Food Preferences
Genotype
Motivation
Rats
Rats, Inbred F344
Rats, Inbred Lew
Rats, Inbred WKY
Rats, Wistar
Species Specificity
Taste

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