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Two potent dissociative anesthetics, phencyclidine and ketamine, were used to establish conditioned taste aversions in albino mice. Over the course of four preference tests, the ketamine-injected animals evidenced a slight extinction effect that did not occur in the phencyclidine-injected mice. The results are discussed in relation to prior phencyclidine taste aversion research using rhesus monkeys.
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Etscorn, F., Parson, P. Taste aversion in mice using phencyclidine and ketamine as the aversive agents. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 14, 19–21 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329387
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