Post-oral and perioral stimulations during nursing enhance appetitive olfactory memory in neonatal rabbits

Chemical Senses

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 405-413

  Serra, J ^a   Ferreira, G ^a   Mirabito, L ^b   Levy F ^a   Nowak, R ^a  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^b Institut de l'Elevage   (France)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Newborn rabbit; Nursing; Olfactory learning; Postprandial state; Suckling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CINNAMON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY MEMORY; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REACTION TIME; SUCKLING; THYME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; APPETITE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; ODORS; RABBITS; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TIME FACTORS;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; THYMUS VULGARIS;

EID: 66049092039     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjp014     Document Type: Article

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