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The circadian rhythm of food intake is driven by a putative central pacemaker in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN). Lesions of the SCN abolish circadian rhythms of feeding and drinking as well as the rest-activity cycle (Moore, 1983). The connections from the SCN to the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH), the “satiety” centre, and to the lateral hypothalamus (LH), the “feeding” centre, appear indispensable to the circadian organisation of ingestive behaviour (see also Rietveld, this volume). Since anticipatory running activity induced by a restricted food regimen persists in SCIM-lesioned rats (Stephan et al., 1979), and maintains certain circadian characteristics, it is considered that weak circadian oscillators, located in the VMH and LH, may persist in the absence of the SCN (Moore, 1983).
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Wirz-Justice, A., Kraeuchi, K., Morimasa, T., Rietveld, W. (1985). Circadian Feeding Rhythms: Central Mechanisms and Methamphetamine Modulation. In: Redfern, P.H., Campbell, I.C., Davies, J.A., Martin, K.F. (eds) Circadian Rhythms in the Central Nervous System. Satellite Symposia of the IUPHAR 9th International Congress of Pharmacology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07837-0_9
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