Salt appetite is reduced by a single experience of drinking hypertonic saline in the adult rat.

Salt appetite, the primordial instinct to favorably ingest salty substances, represents a vital evolutionary important drive to successfully maintain body fluid and electrolyte homeostasis. This innate instinct was shown here in Sprague-Dawley rats by increased ingestion of isotonic saline (IS) over...

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Main Authors: Michael P Greenwood, Mingkwan Greenwood, Julian F R Paton, David Murphy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4128734?pdf=render