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Anna Voznesenskaya1, Michael G Tordoff.
Abstract
We investigated whether maternal influences during the suckling period alter the avidity for calcium, using as models mice from the calcium-preferring PWK/PhJ strain and the calcium-avoiding C57BL/6J strain. We found that milk collected from PWK/PhJ dams had higher calcium concentrations than did milk collected from C57BL/6J dams. Despite this, cross-strain fostering had no effect on adult calcium preferences relative to mice of the same strain that were within-strain fostered or not fostered. Our results indicate that calcium avoidance by C57BL/6J mice and acceptance by PWK/PhJ mice are unaffected by maternal environment during the suckling period.Entities:
Keywords: Calcium; Foster; Lactation; Maternal; Mineral appetite; Taste
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24041724 PMCID: PMC3840078 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2013.09.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Physiol Behav ISSN: 0031-9384