IMPAIRED DRINKING RESPONSES OF RATS WITH LESIONS OF NUCLEUS MEDIANUS - CIRCADIAN DEPENDENCE
IMPAIRED DRINKING RESPONSES OF RATS WITH LESIONS OF NUCLEUS MEDIANUS - CIRCADIAN DEPENDENCE
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DOI:
10.1152/ajpregu.1985.248.2.r224
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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通讯作者:
STRICKER, EM
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作者:
GARDINER, TW;STRICKER, EM
The drinking behavior of rats with electrolytic lesions of ventral nucleus medianus (vNM) was examined during acute hyperosmolality and hypovolemia. The brain-damaged animals were impaired in their drinking responses to systemic treatment with hypertonic saline or polyethylene glycol solution when they were tested during the day. Apparently normal drinking responses to both dipsogenic challenges were observed when the same animals were pretreated with the stimulant drug, caffeine, or when they were tested at night. Lesions of vNM may produce complex alterations in the control of drinking behavior rather than the destruction of sensory receptors. The lesions appear to disrupt both circadian influences on drinking and activational components of drinking that normally serve to facilitate the behavioral response. Evidently, periventricular tissue bordering the rostral wall of the 3rd cerebral ventricle plays an important role in the central control of drinking.