Taste reactivity responses in rats: Influence of sex and the estrous cycle

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 274, Issue 3 43-3, 1998, Pages

  Clarke, Sharon N D A ^a,b   Ossenkopp, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aversive responses; Estradiol; Ingestive behavior; Ingestive responses; Taste reactivity test

Indexed keywords

QUININE; SEX HORMONE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; INGESTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASTE;

EID: 0031919832     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.274.3.r718     Document Type: Article

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