Rats with area postrema lesions have lengthy eating and drinking bouts when fed ad libitum: Implications for feedback inhibition of ingestive behavior

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 623-632

  Stricker, Edward M ^b   Curtis, Kathleen S ^a   Peacock, Kimberly A ^c   Smith, James C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEEDBACK; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SATIETY RESPONSE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STOMACH; VAGUS NERVE; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0030978062     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.3.623     Document Type: Article

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