Acquired sensory preference for protein in diabetic and normal rats

Booth, D.A.

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“…Although Booth (1974) found that olfaction and taste stimuli are effective but not essential for diet selection, it appears that somatosensory input from the diet and/or the eating activity plays a crucial role in linking dietary choice behavior to metabolic conditions. The presence of less effective sensory cues in the deafferented rat, together with the hypothesis of learning processes as intervening mechanisms, may explain the large variability of the selection parameters between rats and from day to day.…”

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Oral somatosensory factors in dietary self-selection in rats.

Miller¹

1984

Behavioral Neuroscience

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For studying the mechanisms of the control of protein intake, rats were subjected to partial trigeminal deafferentation. Oral somatosensory afferents from the lower anterior portion of the oral cavity were selectively sectioned, but somatosensation of the other parts of the mouth as well as gustatory and olfactory afferents were left intact. Animals were allowed to choose from two diets, only one of which contained protein. Before deafferentation, the rats chose a constant portion of their daily intake in the form of protein (12.2%; SE = 0.5). After deafferentation, protein intake was all but eliminated at first but was resumed later; carbohydrate intake was reduced. When total intake had recovered to nearly preoperative values, the protein/total-intake ratio remained impaired, with deficits that ranged from seemingly random selection to extreme preferences. The variability of dietary selection between days was considerably higher than before surgery. The discussion considers the involvement of learning processes in homeostasis.

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“…The sensory cues necessary for these associative learning processes have not yet been clarified. Olfaction and taste appear to facilitate dietary selection but do not seem to be essential (Booth, 1974;Booth & Simson, 1971;Leung, Larson, & Rogers, 1972;Leung, Rogers, & Harper, 1968).…”

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Oral somatosensory factors in dietary self-selection in rats.

Miller¹

1984

Behavioral Neuroscience

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“…A possibility which cannot be ignored is that learning is involved in the behavioural compensation to changes in dietary nutrients. There is evidence that vertebrates are able to associate various features of foods with the consequences, nutritional or otherwise, of their ingestion (Holman, 1969;Booth & Simson, 1971;Rozin & Kalat, 1971;Booth et al, 1972;Simson & Booth, 1973;Booth, 1974b; see also Revusky & Garcia, 1970;Westoby, 1974;Roper, 1983). Learning might underlie the changes in interfeed period found during the 12h, with interfeeds being similar on all four diets at the beginning of the day and then diverging, increasing on high-protein diets and remaining constant or decreasing on lower-…”

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Compensation by locusts for changes in dietary nutrients: behavioural mechanisms

Simpson

Abisgold

1985

Physiological Entomology

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ABSTRACT. The detailed behavioural mechanisms underlying an instance of compensation for changes in dietary nutrients are described for the first time in an insect. Nymphs of Lucustu migruturiu L. were given one of four artificial diets on the third day of the fifth instar, and their feeding patterns recorded in detail for 12 h. The diets represented combinations of two protein and two digestible carbohydrate levels (28% and 14% dry weight) presented in an otherwise complete nutrient mix. At the nutrient levels used, locusts regulated their intake of food with respect to protein but not digestible carbohydrate in the diet. They ate more of the lower protein diets by eating the same sized meals more frequently than insects fed on the higher protein diets. Compensation was not complete over the 12h observation period: insects on the lower-protein diets ingested and absorbed 72% as much nitrogen as those insects fed on the higher-protein diets. Possible physiological mechanisms underlying the behavioural mechanisms are discussed.

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“…On the selection regime, however, the altered rats were able to maintain themselves free of diabetic symptoms. Rats made diabetic through injections of alloxan or streptozotocin showed decreased carbohydrate intakes and increased protein intakes (Booth, 1974;Vartianen & Bastman-Heiskanen, 19SO).…”

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Dietary self-selection by animals.

Overmann¹

1976

Psychological Bulletin

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A growing awareness of the biological context of learning and revelations of long-delay learning in the feeding system have stimulated psychologists' interests in the areas of poison avoidance and food aversion. However, relatively little attention has been given to the intimately related area of dietary selfselection. This review covers an already existing body of literature on dietary selection from a diversity of fields including psychology, nutrition, physiology, and agriculture. It is organized methodologically along two lines: the method of diet presentation and the method of inducing a nutritional need. The bulk of the existing literature consists of demonstrations of dietary selection. Future studies should proceed beyond simple demonstration to elucidation of underlying mechanisms and factors effecting food selection by animals. Suggestions are made for research on dietary selection by psychologists from a number of areas, including comparative, perceptual, and physiological psychology.

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Acquired sensory preference for protein in diabetic and normal rats

Cited by 40 publications

References 13 publications

Oral somatosensory factors in dietary self-selection in rats.

Oral somatosensory factors in dietary self-selection in rats.

Compensation by locusts for changes in dietary nutrients: behavioural mechanisms

Dietary self-selection by animals.

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