The newborn rat ingests fluids through a surrogate nipple: a new technique for the study of early suckling behavior.
In this report we describe an apparatus and procedure that permits a newborn rat pup to ingest test fluids including milk through a surrogate nipple. The surrogate nipple represents a new testing situation for the experimental study of sensory and neurochemical controls of suckling behavior immediately after birth.
Petrov
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Center for Developmental Psychobiology, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, 13902-6000, USA.
Varlinskaya
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Smotherman
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D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009558:Nipples; D011247:Pregnancy; D011603:Psychophysiology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013391:Sucking Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D013649:Taste / Q000502:physiology