An inexpensive food cup for use in a commercially available food monitoring system

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 525-530

  Wellman, Paul J ^a   Bellinger, Larry L ^b   Cepeda Benito, Antonio ^a   Susabda, Agnes ^a   Ho, Dao H ^a   Davis, Kristina W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body weight; Meal number; Meal patterns; Meal size; Rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 9744271738     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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