PMID: 2495804Apr 1, 1989Paper

Food intake and lateral hypothalamic self-stimulation covary after medial hypothalamic lesions or ventral midbrain 6-hydroxydopamine injections that cause obesity

Behavioral Neuroscience
L Hernandez, Bartley G Hoebel

Abstract

In rats with perifornical lateral hypothalamic (LH) electrodes that induced feeding, self-stimulation through the same electrodes increased immediately after ventromedial hypothalamic (VMH) lesions and did not return to normal until food intake normalized and the rats had become obese. In a second experiment a unilateral far-LH lesion decreased both feeding and contralateral perifornical LH self-stimulation. In Experiment 3, 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) injected into the midbrain to destroy the ventral noradrenergic bundle (VNAB) caused hyperphagia and increased LH self-stimulation. In summary, VMH or VNAB damage increased feeding and self-stimulation; contralateral far-LH damage decreased both. These results confirm the earlier suggestion that the VMH region is necessary for normal inhibition of feeding and feeding reward as reflected in self-stimulation rate. Although massive 6-OHDA-induced depletion of the dopamine system that passes through the LH can cause starvation and impair self-stimulation, the results suggest that selective catecholamine depletion of ventral midbrain neurons with sparing of the A9 and A10 dopaminergic cells can disinhibit feeding and self-stimulation. In all three experiments LH self-stimulation and fo...Continue Reading

Citations

Jan 1, 1996·Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews·L L Bernardis, L L Bellinger
Jan 31, 1994·Behavioural Brain Research·R Anderson, E Miliaressis
Sep 1, 1991·Brain Research Bulletin·R C McClelland, B G Hoebel

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