Why does the spontaneously hypertensive rat have an exaggerated preference for sweet and salty solutions? An hypothesis

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1649-1654

  Di Nicolantonio, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drinking behaviour; Glucose preference; Hypovolemia; Salt appetite; Spontaneously hypertensive rat; Taste

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; ISOTONIC SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UREA; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FLUID INTAKE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; HYPOVOLEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM APPETITE; SOLUTE; SWEETNESS; TASTE PREFERENCE;

EID: 4344600893     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004872-200409000-00003     Document Type: Article

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