Obesity, Overeating, and Rapid Gastric Emptying in Rats with Ventromedial Hypothalamic Lesions
- 7 February 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 231 (4738) , 609-611
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.3511527
Abstract
Measurements confirm the quantitative theoretical prediction that the autonomic nonendocrine abnormality of rapid daytime gastric emptying is the major primary cause of the obesity resulting from ventromedial hypothalamic lesions in rats. Therapy for obesity could include slowing of stomach emptying.This publication has 41 references indexed in Scilit:
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