Kaolin Pellets - 5TBP

 

Pica Behavior
Nausea and related illnesses are often an unwelcome side effect of some research studies and drug treatments. This nausea and related disruption of appetite and ingestion adversely affect such studies and distort resulting data. It can be caused by a wide variety of factors, including cancer, viral and bacterial infections, and consumption of toxins.

 

Pica behavior (the craving for and ingesting of unnatural or non-nutrient substances) in mice and rats may indicate nausea, analogous to emesis in other species. This behavior may often be the only apparent indicator of such symptoms, or of syndromes of malabsorption or maldigestion.

 

Offering non-nutritive kaolin pellets to your laboratory animals provides an effective means of early detection of such illness in laboratory animals. They are both economical and easy to administer.

 

Kaolin is used in the study of –

Anorexia

Bulimia

Cachexia (a weight loss condition accompanying advanced illness)

Chemotherapy

Diabetes

Digestive & Ingestive Disorders

Metabolic Syndrome

Obesity

Oncology

Pharmaceutical Trials

Radiation Therapy