POISON INDUCED PICA IN RATS
POISON INDUCED PICA IN RATS
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DOI:
10.1016/0031-9384(76)90171-2
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
MITCHELL, LK
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作者:
MITCHELL, D;WELLS, C;MITCHELL, LK
Two experiments investigating the effects of poisoning on the consumption of non-nutritive substances are reported. In the 1st experiment, rats were poisoned with lithium chloride or Red Squill and offered a choice between food and soil. In the 2nd experiment, rats were poisoned with cyclophosphamide and offered a choice between food and kaolin. Following treatment, poisoned rats in both experiments increased their consumption of the non-nutritive substances. Rats poisoned with logarithmic doses consumed amounts of the non-nutritive substances proportionate to the amount of poison administered. Increased pica may be an illness-response behavior of the rat, analogous to vomiting in other species, which can be used as an easily quantifiable behavioral assay of noxious drug effects.