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As compared to C57BL/6J mice, 129P3/J mice show weaker preferences for and lower intakes of dilute sugar solutions. These differences have been attributed to genetic differences in their sweet taste receptor. The two mouse strains do not differ, however, in their intake of concentrated sugar solutions. The postoral satiating effect of concentrated sugar solutions may mask strain differences in the...
Progressive ratio (PR) schedules, which require increasing numbers of responses for successive reinforcements, are widely used to measure the reward value of foods, fluids, and drugs in operant lever-pressing tasks. The present study evaluated a PR operant licking task as a measure of sweet taste reward. In Experiment 1, food deprived rats were offered sucrose to drink on PR lick or fixed ratio (FR)...
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