PMID: 6540457Mar 1, 1984Paper

Dissociation of stimulation-bound feeding and apomorphine-induced gnawing by lesions of superior colliculus

Physiology & Behavior
P DeanD Gay

Abstract

The intense stereotyped gnawing induced by high doses of apomorphine is almost abolished by large bilateral lesions of the superior colliculus. It has been argued that the feeding produced by electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamic area is closely related to dopamine-mediated oral stereotypies; if so, it might be expected that lesions of the superior colliculus would also disrupt stimulation-bound feeding. Feeding was obtained from 14 hypothalamic electrodes in 8 hooded Lister rats. Subsequent electrolytic lesions of the superior colliculus had no overall effect on this behaviour from 13 of the 14 electrodes, even though the lesions reduced the gnawing induced by 8-20 mg/kg apomorphine to less than 10% of its preoperative intensity. It is concluded that stimulation-bound feeding and apomorphine-induced gnawing are not dependent on identical neural circuitry, and therefore stimulation-bound feeding is probably not mediated by the nigrotectal pathway.

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