The vital role of saliva as a mechanical sealant for suckling in the rat

MeSH terms

• Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
• Animals
• Animals, Newborn*
• Behavior, Animal
• Breast Feeding
• Feeding Behavior
• Female
• Lip
• Mouth / physiology*
• Parotid Gland / metabolism
• Petrolatum
• Pregnancy
• Rats
• Rats, Inbred Strains
• Saliva / metabolism
• Saliva / physiology*
• Salivary Glands / growth & development
• Starvation
• Sublingual Gland / metabolism
• Submandibular Gland / metabolism
• Sucking Behavior*
• Weaning