High lick rate is maintained throughout spontaneous liquid meals in freely feeding rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1185-1188

  Rushing, Paul A ^a   Houpt, Thomas A ^a   Henderson, Ross P ^b   Gibbs, James ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ingestion; Lickometer; Meal patterns; Microstructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INGESTION; LICKING; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030854259     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00308-9     Document Type: Article

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