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Decreased Feeding after Injections of Amino-acids into the Hypothalamus

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BUT for two exceptions1,2, attempts to inhibit feeding behaviour by direct intrahypothalamic administration of glucose have been unsuccessful3–6. The effects of other nutrients have yet to be assessed. We have found that microinjections of balanced amino-acid solutions into dorsolateral perifornical hypothalamic tissue, where consummatory behaviours are obtained with electrical stimulation, inhibit feeding in rats.

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PANKSEPP, J., BOOTH, D. Decreased Feeding after Injections of Amino-acids into the Hypothalamus. Nature 233, 341–342 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/233341a0

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