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Title: Taste-aversion learning produced by combined treatment with subthreshold radiation and lithium chloride

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5068633

These experiments were designed to determine whether treatment with two subthreshold doses of radiation or lithium chloride, either alone or in combination, could lead to taste-aversion learning. The first experiment determined the threshold for a radiation-induced taste aversion at 15-20 rad and for lithium chloride at 0.30-0.45 mEq/kg. In the second experiment it was shown that exposing rats to two doses of 15 rad separated by up to 3 hr produced a taste aversion. Treatment with two injections of lithium chloride did produce a taste aversion when the two treatments were administered within 1 hr or each other. The results are discussed in terms of the implications of these findings for understanding the nature of the unconditional stimuli leading to the acquisition of a conditioned taste aversion.

Research Organization:
Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Inst., Bethesda, MD (USA)
OSTI ID:
5068633
Report Number(s):
AD-A-186504/7/XAB; AFRRI-SR-87-31
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Pub. in Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, Vol. 27, 671-675(1987)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English