Parabrachial lesions disrupt responses of rats to amino acid devoid diets, to protein-free diets, but not to high-protein diets

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 70, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 381-389

  Fromentin, Gilles ^a   Feurté, Sébastien ^b   Nicolaidis, Stylianos ^b   Norgren, Ralph ^c  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned taste aversion; Electrolytic lesion; Essential amino acid deficient diet; Food intake; High protein diet; Parabrachial nucleus; Protein free diet; Rats

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOPHAGIA; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DIET; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE AVERSION;

EID: 0033835750     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(00)00275-4     Document Type: Article

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