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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 283: R1061-R1069, 2002. First published July 8, 2002; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00236.2002
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Vol. 283, Issue 5, R1061-R1069, November 2002

Reduced feeding during water deprivation depends on hydration of the gut

Guus H. M. Schoorlemmer and Mark D. Evered

Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada S7N 5E5

Removal of drinking water at the start of the dark period reduced food intake in freely feeding rats within 45 min. Both first and later meals were smaller during 7.5 h of water deprivation, but meal frequency did not change. Ingestion of a normal-sized meal (3 g) rapidly increased plasma tonicity when drinking water was withheld, but intravenous infusions of hypertonic NaCl causing similar increases in plasma tonicity did not reduce feeding. Feeding during 6 h of water deprivation was restored by slowly infusing the volume of water normally drunk into the stomach, jejunum, or cecum, but not in the vena cava or hepatic portal vein. The infusions did not alter water or electrolyte excretion or affect food intake in rats allowed to drink. We conclude that the inhibition of feeding seen during water deprivation is mediated by a sensor that is located in the gastrointestinal tract or perhaps in the mesenteric veins draining the gut, but not the hepatic portal vein or the liver. In the absence of drinking water, signals from this sensor provoke the early termination of a meal.

dehydration anorexia; hypertonic; hypotonic; osmoreceptor


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