Cyclic AMP tastes aversive, not sweet, to rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 495-498

  Houpt, Thomas A ^a,c   Frankmann, Sandra P ^b   Berlin, Roseanne ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Malik and Seeme Hasan School of Business   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

8cpt cAMP; Licking; Lickometer; Saccharin; Second messenger; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

8 (4 CHLOROPHENYLTHIO) CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LICKING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SECOND MESSENGER; SWEETNESS; TASTE AVERSION;

EID: 0029917218     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02090-X     Document Type: Article

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