Continuous intraoral saccharin infusions in high vs. low saccharin-consuming rats.

doi:10.1016/s0031-9384(96)00355-1

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Continuous intraoral saccharin infusions in high vs. low saccharin-consuming rats.

Physiology & behavior - 1 Jan 1997

Thiele T E, Badia-Elder N E, Kiefer S W, Dess N K

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Confirmed high saccharin (HiS)-consuming and low saccharin (LoS)-consuming rats were compared in their taste response to saccharin using a continuous intraoral infusion procedure. On 2 separate days, rats were infused with 0.1% saccharin (rate = 1 ml/min) until they rejected fluid via passive dri...

Topics

Animals
Food Preferences
Genotype
Male
Motivation
Rats
Rats, Inbred Strains
Reaction Time
Saccharin
Selection, Genetic
Taste

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