Effects of early food deprivation on mouse behavior.

1 January 1973

journal article
Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Vol. 83 (2) , 314-323
https://doi.org/10.1037/h0034426

Abstract

Assessed the effects of early food deprivation upon open-field defecation and activity, running-wheel activity, and food-competition behavior using 76 A/J and 73 DBA/2J mice. Experimental Ss were food deprived from Day 18-27 of life for 10 hr/day. Food-deprived Ss defecated more in the open field and were less active in the running wheels. In these measures, strain and sex interacted with treatment. DBA mice which received the deprivation treatment were less competitive than the comparison Ss, but the treatment did not affect competition in the A/J Ss. It is suggested that the severity of the treatment and age when it was administered interfered with normal development of behavior. (21 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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