Why Can't Rodents Vomit? A Comparative Behavioral, Anatomical, and Physiological Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Horn, Charles C ^a,b   Kimball, Bruce A ^c   Wang, Hong ^d   Kaus, James ^e   Dienel, Samuel ^e   Nagy, Allysa ^e   Gathright, Gordon R ^c   Yates, Bill J ^b,e   Andrews, Paul L R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; CEVADINE; COPPER SULFATE; RESINIFERATOXIN;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAVER; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GLIRES; GUINEA PIG; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUTH MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIA; PHRENIC NERVE; RAT; RODENT; SHOULDER MUSCLE MOVEMENT; SHREW; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VOLE; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; PHYLOGENY; RODENTIA; VOMITING;

APLODONTIIDAE; CAVIA; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; MUS; MUSTELA; MYOCASTORINAE; PRIMATES; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SUNCUS;

EID: 84876062275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060537     Document Type: Article

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