Nineteen female Wistar rats were employed in a self-selection-of-diet study assessing the
effects of vagotomy on macronutrient consumption. Nutrients offered were a 30% sucrose …

Adult female vagotomized and control (sham-vagotomized) rats were compared in their
consumption of saccharin solutions, intake of solid and liquid sucrose, and selection of …

Subdiaphragmatic vagotomy can produce deficits in body weight and regulatory behaviors
in rats, but these occur only under specific conditions. Body weight deficits were found in …

Rabbits were either chronically vagotomized or laparotomized (controls) and maintained on
free-feeding regimens. In Experiment 1, animals received greens, liquid, and solid foods …

To determine if the decreased water intake of abdominal vagotomized rats in the presence
and absence of food could be localized to a specific branch of the abdominal vagus, we …

Abstract Adult female Sprague-Dawley rats were given ventromedial hypothalamic
parasagittal knife cuts (VMH treatment) or control surgery (Con treatment), followed 10 days …

In two independent experiments, complete subdiaphragmatic vagotomy did not prevent the
development of the obesity that results from the addition of highly palatable foods to the diet …

Fourteen male albino rats reduced in body weight were exposed to a daily 1 hr FI-1 min
schedule of food reinforcement. When schedule induced licking and drinking and schedule …

This study was designed to examine the possibility that the presence of rat in a diet is
responsible for preventing the small post vagotomy meals that occur with chemically defined …

Rats and rabbits were subjected to bilateral subdiaphragmatic vagotomy or laparotomy
(sham vagotomy) and maintained on a diet of solid food. Measurement of stomach size was …