Zoopharmacognosy in diseased laboratory mice: conflicting evidence.

Zoopharmacognosy denotes a constellation of learned ingestive responses that promote healing and survival of infected or poisoned animals. A similar self-medication phenomenon was reported in diseased laboratory rodents. In particular, a series of studies revealed that autoimmune MRL/lpr mice readil...

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Main Authors: Minesh Kapadia, Hui Zhao, Donglai Ma, Rupal Hatkar, Monica Marchese, Boris Sakic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24956477/?tool=EBI