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A STRONG gustatory aversion results when an animal consumes a distinctively flavoured fluid during exposure to sublethal doses (10–30 r.) of ionizing radiation1. Similar aversive reactions are observed when wild rodents consume poisoned food baits2; or when laboratory rats drink flavoured water and are subsequently injected with an emetic drug3; or when these animals are injected with a small amount of serum (1.2 ml.) from a donor exposed to massive irradiation (30 krad) from cobalt 60 (ref. 4).
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LEVY, C., ERVIN, F. & GARCIA, J. Effect of Serum from Irradiated Rats on Gastrointestinal Function. Nature 225, 463–464 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225463a0
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