Food carrying determined by eating time of a food in rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Psychobiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 133-134

  Nakatsuyama, Eiko ^a,b   Makino, Junshiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIETARY INTAKE; EATING; FOOD INTAKE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASTE PREFERENCE;

EID: 0032891035     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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