Female rats show a bimodal preference response to the artificial sweetener sucralose

Chemical Senses

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 523-528

  Sclafani, Anthony ^a   Clare, Richard A ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial sweeteners; Individual differences; Sex differences; Species difference; Taste preferences

Indexed keywords

SUCRALOSE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT; TRICHLOROSUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWEETNESS; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE PREFERENCE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FOOD PREFERENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TASTE;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE;

EID: 23844457775     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh055     Document Type: Article

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