title: Internal controls of suckling, feeding, and drinking in neonatal rats.
abstract: The gradual transfer of ingestion from infantile to adult modes has given rise to the concept of suckling as a primitive reflex precursor of adult ingestion. This concept is here rejected in favour of the case for a closer look at complex and overlapping forms of control, including reference to the possibility that some internal control can be found in rats at a very early age under certain test conditions.
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D000828:Animal Population Groups / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D000833:Animals, Suckling / Q000502:physiology*; D001066:Appetite / Q000502:physiology*; D001942:Breast Feeding; D004327:Drinking Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005508:Food Deprivation; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007774:Lactation; D011247:Pregnancy; D051381:Rats