The surrogate nipple technique in the rat provides a useful animal model of suckling in bottle-feeding circumstances: reply to Blass (2002).
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D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001903:Bottle Feeding; D002585:Cesarean Section; D008297:Male; D008465:Mechanoreceptors / Q000502:physiology; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009558:Nipples / Q000502:physiology*; D011187:Posture / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D013391:Sucking Behavior / Q000502:physiology*