Rotation-induced conditioned rejection in the taste reactivity test.
The taste reactivity test was used to evaluate the ability of motion sickness to produce conditioned rejection reactions, a putative measure of nausea in rats. Following three conditioning trials, rats displayed conditioned rejection reactions during an intraoral infusion of a rotation-paired saccharin solution. This is the first demonstration of conditioned rejection produced with a non-pharmacological emetic agent and provides support that the conditioned rejection reaction may serve as a rat model of nausea.
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Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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Ossenkopp
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D000818:Animals; D001362:Avoidance Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D003216:Conditioning, Operant / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009041:Motion Sickness / Q000503:physiopathology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012399:Rotation; D012439:Saccharin; D013649:Taste / Q000502:physiology*
D012439:Saccharin