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