@article{6668d6396ffa499598161043fc6d837f,
title = "Exposure to the odor of food determines the eating preferences of rat pups",
abstract = "Rat pups found garlic-laced food to be less preferred than unadulterated Purina lab chow. A tolerance for the nonpreferred rations was established, however, by exposure of developing rat pups either to maternal females fed garlic-tainted food or to a colony room suffused with the garlic odor. A final study showed that the alteration of rats' preferences due to these early experiences was only transient. Pups exposed to garlic prefer food laced with that flavoring at the time of weaning, but not on subsequent tests.",
author = "Bronstein, {Paul M.} and Crockett, {David P.}",
note = "Funding Information: One type of procedure used in such studies has involved the exposure of rat mothers to a particular food. The weanlings reared by such dams subsequently show a preference for the food eaten by their maternal caretaker (e.g., Bronstein et al., 1975; Capretta and Rawls, 1974; Galef and Henderson, 1972). In a recent demonstration of this effect (Bronstein and Crockett, in press), rat pups were shown to tolerate a nonpreferred, garlic-flavored food if their dams had been fed a similar garlic mixture during lactation. Visitors to our animal facilities soon became aware of the odor of garlic. This robust and not always pleasant observation on the part of humans suggested the 1This work was supported by Grant 10239 from the Research Foundation of the City University of New York and by Grant MH 26372-01 from the National Institute of Mental Health to the ftrst author. These studies were part of a Master's thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology of Brooklyn College by D. P. Crockett. We thank Phil Allen and Martin Schulman for their excellent technical assistance. 2To whom reprint requests should be addressed.",
year = "1976",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1016/S0091-6773(76)92375-0",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "18",
pages = "387--392",
journal = "Behavioral Biology",
issn = "0091-6773",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "3",
}