The taste characteristics of sodium-saccharin in the rat: a re-examination of the dual taste hypothesis
- 1 June 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Chemical Senses
- Vol. 13 (2) , 205-212
- https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/13.2.205
Abstract
A conditioned flavor aversion (CFA) was used to measure the taste characteristics of 0.005 and 0.025 M Na-saccharin in the rat. At neither concentration did the rats show generalization to NaCl, quinine HCl or SO4, sucrose octa-acetate or HCl, whereas generalization to sucrose was found at both concentrations. When the CFA was formed to 0.0001 M quinine HCl, no direct evidence was found for generalization of the aversion to either saccharin concentration. Thus at the two concentrations used Na-saccharin would appear to be primarily sucrose-like in the rat taste system when behavioral criteria are used.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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