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  • Title: Dietary sodium deprivation does not alter taste sensitivity in the rat.
    Author: Brosvic GM, Hoey NE.
    Journal: Physiol Behav; 1990 May; 47(5):881-8. PubMed ID: 2388944.
    Abstract:
    The influence of 33 days of combined dietary sodium and water deprivation on the taste sensitivity and responsivity of the rat to a wide range of NaCl solutions and discrimination tasks was examined using double-blind procedures, high-precision gustometry, and an automated operant go/no-go task. Sodium concentration in urine and saliva but not plasma decreased significantly only in the sodium-deficient rats. The same measures remained unchanged in control animals. Nonparametric measures of taste sensitivity and responsivity to NaCl did not differ between sodium-deficient and control animals and performance on taste discrimination, reversal learning, and lick-rate tasks remained the same between the groups as well. The present results support and extend previous findings that dietary-induced sodium deficiency increases NaCl and water consumption, but alters neither the sodium-deficient rat's taste sensitivity and responsivity nor performance on simple and complex tasks in which tastants serve as cues for discriminative responding.
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