Mouse taste preference tests: Why only two bottles?

Chemical Senses

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 315-324

  Tordoff, Michael G ^a   Bachmanov, Alexander A ^a  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

129X1 SvJ; C57BL 6J; Citric acid; NaCl; Quinine hydrochloride; Saccharin; Side preferences; Spillage; Taste tests

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; QUININE; SACCHARIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING; FLUID INTAKE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTION TEST; INGESTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LICKING; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASTE PREFERENCE; VOLUMETRY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CITRIC ACID; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; QUININE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SACCHARIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TASTE;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS;

EID: 1642549169     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/28.4.315     Document Type: Article

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