Journal article
Taste control over sodium intake in sodium deficient rats
Abstract
Discrimination and preference tests have shown that 0.3 molar sodium chloride (NaCl) and 0.03 molar sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) appear to taste very similar to the normal rat. In this study, it is shown that when sodium deficiency is induced by formalin injection rats accept equal amounts of these solutions although the former contains 5 times as much sodium per unit volume as the latter. It is suggested that sodium depletion produces a …
Authors
Morrison GR; Young JC
Journal
Physiology & Behavior, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 29–32
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
January 1972
DOI
10.1016/0031-9384(72)90125-4
ISSN
0031-9384