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Comparative effects of amygdala and central gray matter of the midbrain on lateral hypothalamic unit activity

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The effect of stimulation of the stria terminalis, the main afferent component of the amygdalo-hypothalmic system, and of the central gray matter and tegmentum of the midbrain on lateral hypothalamic unit activity was investigated in acute experiments on rats. Five types of unit responses were discovered: phasic excitation and inhibition, tonic activation and inhibition, and a biphasic response. In response to stimulation of the stria terminalis and lateral hypothalamus mainly inhibitory responses (62.7%) were recorded. As a result of stimulation of the central gray matter most lateral hypothalamic neurons (87%) were activated. Convergence of influences from the amygdala and tegmentum was observed on 14.4% of responding neurons. The structures had an antagonistic action on most (84.6%) of the lateral hypothalamic neurons tested.

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  1. N. I. Dubrovina
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Institute of Physiology, Siberian Branch, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Novosibirsk. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 25–32, January–February, 1977.

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Dubrovina, N.I., Il'yuchenok, R.Y. Comparative effects of amygdala and central gray matter of the midbrain on lateral hypothalamic unit activity. Neurophysiology 9, 18–23 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063539

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