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Rats prefer sweets to cocaine in study
#7620410 - 11/10/07 09:48 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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In a study, rats overwhelmingly prefer sweetened water to cocaine, even those already hooked on the drug. November 10, 2007 - LA Times
Researchers have learned that rats overwhelmingly prefer water sweetened with saccharin to cocaine, a finding that demonstrates the addictive potential of sweets.
Offering larger doses of cocaine did not alter the rats' preference for saccharin, according to the report.
Scientists said the study, presented this week in San Diego at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, might help explain the rise in human obesity, which has been driven in part by an overconsumption of sugary foods.
In the experiment, 43 rats were placed in cages with two levers, one of which delivered an intravenous dose of cocaine and the other a sip of highly sweetened water. At the end of the 15-day trial, 40 of the rats consistently chose saccharin instead of cocaine.
When sugar water was substituted for the saccharin solution, the results were the same, researchers said.
Further testing the rat sweet tooth, scientists subjected 24 cocaine-addicted rats to a similar trial. At the end of 10 days, the majority of them preferred saccharin.
"Intense sweetness is more rewarding to the rats than cocaine," said coauthor Magalie Lenoir of the University of Bordeaux in France.
Lenoir said mammalian taste receptors evolved in an environment that lacked sugar and so were not adapted to the high concentrations of sweets found in the modern diet. Excess sugar could increase levels of the brain chemical dopamine, she said, leading to a craving for sweets.
Cocaine also increases dopamine, she said, but through a different brain mechanism.
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Re: Rats prefer sweets to cocaine in study [Re: veggie]
#7620450 - 11/10/07 10:12 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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So when is artificial sweetener going to be scheduled?
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Re: Rats prefer sweets to cocaine in study [Re: veggie]
#7620704 - 11/11/07 12:03 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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n the experiment, 43 rats were placed in cages with two levers, one of which delivered an intravenous dose of cocaine and the other a sip of highly sweetened water. At the end of the 15-day trial, 40 of the rats consistently chose saccharin instead of cocaine.
neat study, but a drink of sugar water to a needle in the arm?
maybe if it were simmalar ingestion methods, both with or with out pain, those results would be viable. IMHO
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Re: Rats prefer sweets to cocaine in study [Re: ThirdEyeOpening]
#7620786 - 11/11/07 12:30 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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the rats probably had iv tubes in them already.
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Re: Rats prefer sweets to cocaine in study [Re: truekimbo2]
#7621227 - 11/11/07 08:09 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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only further proving what we already know, these experiences called real life are drugs, too; and all those who judge drug abusers/experimenters are only hypocrites and delusional, trapped in the moment that is inescapable.
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Re: Rats prefer sweets to cocaine in study [Re: veggie]
#7621276 - 11/11/07 08:37 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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No one wants to do blow for 15 days...even rats
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Re: Rats prefer sweets to cocaine in study [Re: Organic]
#7621431 - 11/11/07 09:54 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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the real question is;
who lives longer? the cokehead rat or the obese rat?
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Re: Rats prefer sweets to cocaine in study [Re: anarchOi]
#7621586 - 11/11/07 10:50 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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probably the coke head rat lol... but yea 15 days they probably gave the coke to them like in a poof of air or in water what does IHMO mean? i hate money orders?
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Re: Rats prefer sweets to cocaine in study [Re: wikedferret]
#7621699 - 11/11/07 11:33 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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IMHO = in my humble opinion
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Re: Rats prefer sweets to cocaine in study [Re: usg543]
#7624419 - 11/12/07 02:35 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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They do coke tests on monkeys. Apparently, a monkey will pick a dose of cocaine over socializing with other monkeys.
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Re: Rats prefer sweets to cocaine in study [Re: u4ea]
#7624431 - 11/12/07 02:58 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yeah, well, you try socializing w/ monkeys...
My last neighbors were fucking chimpanzees... always fighting an hooting in the middle of the night.
They did have some good coke though, so it was kind of a mixed bag, really...
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