ONTOGENY OF FEEDING IN RATS .1. INGESTIVE AND BEHAVIORAL-RESPONSES TO ORAL INFUSIONS
ONTOGENY OF FEEDING IN RATS .1. INGESTIVE AND BEHAVIORAL-RESPONSES TO ORAL INFUSIONS
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10.1037/h0077628
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
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HALL, WG
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HALL, WG
When milk infusions were made through oral cannulas located in the front of their mouths, rat pups from 1-20 days of age actively ingested the diet and their intake was related to the length of deprivation. Pups increased their ingestive responding after they had consumed large volumes of milk. In addition, 1, 3 and 6 day old pups, when 24 h deprived, exhibited an intense behavioral activation in response to milk infusion. The behavioral activation appeared to be stimulated primarily by taste and the opportunity to swallow. Milk infusions did not produce activation in older pups; their behavior was more exclusively ingestive and food directed. From birth, rat pups are capable of an active form of ingestion, independent of normal suckling from the mother; such ingestion is controlled by physiological factors; food has arousing properties in young animals; and as pups grow older, their ingestive responding is refined from a generalized and nondirected activation to specific and directed feeding responses.