Abdominal vagotomy alters the structure of the ingestive behavior of rats ingesting liquid diets

• Published in: Behavioral neuroscience Vol. 108; no. 4; p. 767
• Main Authors: Davis, J.D, Smith, G.P, Kung, T.M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.08.1994
• Subjects: Afferent Pathways - physiology; Animals; COMPORTEMENT ALIMENTAIRE; DIET; DIETA; Digestive System - innervation; Drinking Behavior - physiology; Efferent Pathways - physiology; Energy Intake - physiology; Feedback - physiology; Feeding Behavior - physiology; FEEDING HABITS; FOOD INTAKE; Gastric Emptying - physiology; Gastrointestinal Transit - physiology; HABITOS ALIMENTARIOS; INGESTION; INGESTION DE ALIMENTOS; licking behavior; LIQUIDE; LIQUIDOS; LIQUIDS; Male; Motor Neurons - physiology; PRISE ALIMENTAIRE (HOMME); RAT; RATA; RATS; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; REGIME ALIMENTAIRE; Taste - physiology; Taste Threshold - physiology; VAGOTOMIA; VAGOTOMIE; VAGOTOMY; Vagus Nerve - physiology

A microstructural analysis of the licking behavior of the rat was used to investigate the effects of total abdominal vagotomy on ingestive behavior. Vagotomy decreased the meal size of milk and 3 concentrations of sucrose. The decrease was due to an increase in the decline in the rate of licking dur...