Some of them even reported an aversion toward machines and computers.
More recently, Han et al (2009), in a survey involving >4000 members of the US public, reported that aversion to the uncertainty of risk information was associated with older age, lower socioeconomic education and female sex.
The majority of light:dark testing paradigms used to date employ short trials (5 10 min duration) and we suggest that this may be one factor in the failure to report light aversion in previous studies using retinal degnerate rodents [19], [20].
Qualitative research with physicians also reports patient aversion to using warfarin due to negative connotations [ 16].
Results: During the first trimester, 96% of subjects decreased or quit drinking coffee, 65% of whom reported a unique aversion to coffee.
Lithium chloride (LiCl) (Sigma Ultra, Sigma Chemicals CO; Stockholm, Sweden) was diluted in vehicle (0.9% sodium chloride) and was administered at a dose previously reported to produce aversion (150 mg/kg, i.p).
Additionally, the SEND trial presented more problems for equipoise and for patient-reported aversion to recruitment, perhaps confirming the interdependence of these two issues discussed above.
We employed a symmetric apparatus for testing air-puff conditioned place aversion as reported in our previous study.
In the aversion experiments reported in Fig. 4, rats gained weight during the first 3 days of the test.
Although compounds with relative selectivity for the mu and kappa opiate receptors subtypes have been reported to condition taste aversions, it is not known whether systemically administered delta compounds have the ability to produce aversions.
