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Pica as an adaptive response: Kaolin consumption helps rats recover from chemotherapy-induced illness

Clay consumption can occur during illness but there has been little work to understand why. To investigate whether consuming clay confers an advantage to the sick animal, we compared the recovery from illness of adult male rats with or without access to kaolin. Illness was induced by injection of 6...

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Main Authors: De Jonghe, Bart C., Lawler, Maureen P., Horn, Charles C., Tordoff, Michael G.
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: 2009
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2680461/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19419663
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.02.009
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