Nursing behavior: remembrance of things past.
Successful suckling is vital to the survival of mammalian newborns. In many mammals, nursing behavior is triggered by maternally derived odors. Such odors may also promote the learned association of odorant cues present in the environment during nursing.
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Nirao M
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Department of Anatomy, 1550 4th Street, MC 2722, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA. nms@ucsf.edu
D000818:Animals; D000833:Animals, Suckling / Q000502:physiology; D001245:Association Learning; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003463:Cues; D007774:Lactation / Q000502:physiology*; D009812:Odorants; D010675:Pheromones / Q000502:physiology*; D011817:Rabbits / Q000502:physiology*
D010675:Pheromones