Cooling the area postrema induces conditioned taste aversions in male rats and blocks acquisition of LiC1-induced aversions

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 768-776

  Wang, Yuan ^a   Lavond, David G ^a   Chambers, Kathleen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; TASTE AVERSION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DIETARY SUCROSE; DRINKING; FOOD PREFERENCES; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TASTE;

EID: 0030739157     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.4.768     Document Type: Article

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