Systemic treatment with the enteric bacterial fermentation product, propionic acid, produces both conditioned taste avoidance and conditioned place avoidance in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 134-141

  Ossenkopp, Klaus Peter ^a   Foley, Kelly A ^a   Gibson, James ^a   Fudge, Melissa A ^a   Kavaliers, Martin ^a   Cain, Donald P ^a   MacFabe, Derrick F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aversive conditioning; Aversive internal cues; Conditioned place avoidance; Conditioned taste avoidance; Lickometer; LiCl; Locomotor activity; Propionic acid; Rats

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE; PROPIONIC ACID; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED PLACE AVOIDANCE; CONDITIONED TASTE AVOIDANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DRINKING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TASTE; WATER DEPRIVATION;

EID: 82255173803     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.10.045     Document Type: Article

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