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Metabolic factors can be invoked to explain how exploratory activities of rats in runways are altered by drugs and by previous experience. A drug mixture, akin to one which can cause drug dependence in man, appears to act by extending the impression of novelty in a limited environment.
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McILWAIN, H. Metabolic Approach to Interpreting Animal Exploratory Activity. Nature 220, 889–890 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220889a0
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