Notes that much of normal drinking occurs around mealtime and that little is known about the
physiological mechanisms involved, despite the identification of neurological substrates and …

The evidence for the participation of signals from the gastrointestinal tract in hunger and
satiety is reviewed. Various methods of subjecting only certain portions of the …

Lesions of the area postrema (AP) and adjacent caudal medial nucleus of the solitary tract
(cmNTS) cause significant changes in water and sodium balance. Lesioned rats display a …

Male Sprague-Dawley rats which survived bilateral subdiaphragmatic vagotomy (with
hepatic branch intact) exhibited an acute syndrome of hypophagia, hypodipsia and severe …

We examined the role of the vagus nerves in mediating the eating and preprandial drinking
seen after injection of norepinephrine (NE) into the region of the paraventricular …

Rationale Many attempts to understand ingestion have sought to clarify the control of meals.
Little is known about the effects of the anorexogenic hormone leptin on meal patterning …

To determine if the decreased water intake of abdominal vagotomized rats in the presence
and absence of food could be localized to a specific branch of the abdominal vagus, we …

Drinking occurs around meal time in most mammals. Food-related drinking accounts for∼
70% of daily fluid intake for rats1, 2, but little is known of the mechanisms by which eating …

Results of a study with 35 male Sprague-Dawley rats show that after complete bilateral
transection of the abdominal vagus (Vgx-C9), with the hepatic branch left intact, Ss drank …

Male rats were given bilateral subdiaphragmatic vagotomy or a sham operation. Both
groups of animals showed equivalent hyperphagia and weight gain during a ten day …