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Bulbectomized and unoperated mice were given 1 h of exposure to a novel food (almond) before receiving an intraperitoneal injection of lithium chloride solution. Their consumption of almond was recorded for the subsequent 10 days. Mice of both groups acquired a marked aversion to almond, and the unoperated mice continued to eat little throughout the experiment. The bulbectomized mice resumed eating more rapidly and, by the third day after the induction of illness, their consumption of almond did not differ from that of a control group which had not been lithium treated. The integrity of the olfactory system appears necessary for the maintenance, though not the establishment, of a taste aversion.
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Cooper, A., Capretta, P.J. Olfactory bulb removal and taste aversion learning in mice. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 7, 235–236 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337174
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